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Old 07-01-2008, 07:18 AM   #1
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Do I Need CUPS?


My distribution has drivers for Hewlett Packard printers, and my printing device isn't part of a network. So can I safely remove CUPS?
 
Old 07-01-2008, 07:25 AM   #2
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Probably not---CUPS is the printing infrastructure most commonly used on Linux. I would assume the drivers you have are intended to work with CUPS.
Whether you printer is on a network is irrelevant.

More here:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
 
  


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