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Old 20th December 2014
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Thanks. After years of struggling to avoid cups, I ended up having to deploy it for a printer that would not work properly with foomatic-rip.

I console myself knowing that I have the ability to use hplip-gui with it.
Today, I reverted to lpd(8). Once again, CUPS had failures with terrible diagnostics. I've removed it and everything that depended upon it. (I still have the cups-filters and cups-libs installed, they are dependencies of other packages that require them.) Now, I'm just using my simple Postscript printer and a plain PPD file.
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