CUPS

People who are using the latest major version of OS X have no use for this. Apple already makes sure that CUPS is kept up-to-date for those users. The only people who might need or want this are those using an earlier version of the operating system, because in those cases, Apple usually stops providing anything other than basic security updates, and allows certain open source components to languish. For example, while Snow Leopard already has version 1.4.5 of CUPS, Leopard, even at 10.5.8 and with Apple's security updates that came after it, is still at version 1.3.11. And with that said, keep in mind that if you don't know what you are doing you can completely DESTROY your ability to print, which will require an operating system re-install or a backup restore. Unless you're comfortable building from source and know how to handle anything that might go wrong, LEAVE THIS ALONE. Please. And backup your hard drive or make sure that your Time Machine backups are working BEFORE you install this. Please.

HELP!!!! hi, I download 1.7.2 Released 12-Apr-2014 and then make install and then I can't launch any apps, crash log is: Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/PrintCore Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture How Can I Do Now???

Get the following error at the "make" command: 3 errors generated. make[1]: *** [adminutil.o] Error 1 Running a clean 10.9.1 and using XCode 5.0.2. Am thus unable to test and/or rate this update.

As a reminder, the general policy for CUPS is: 1) Don't install CUPS unless you know you need it, or are geeky enough to want to play with it. 2) Never install anything but a stable version of CUPS, unless you're already an experienced beta tester. Beta CUPS can badly mess up your computer. BTW: There is no such thing as 'Easy Software Products', a company that went defunct years ago. I wish MU would remove that label for the developer website link. CUPS is an open source project sponsored by Apple. The project can be found at CUPS.org.

Current version of CUPS built in to 10.7.4 is 1.5.3.

For those who wish to update, and are not reliant upon Apple's System updates there is another safe means of doing so: Print Therapy by FIXAMAC.

People who are using the latest major version of OS X have no use for this. Apple already makes sure that CUPS is kept up-to-date for those users. The only people who might need or want this are those using an earlier version of the operating system, because in those cases, Apple usually stops providing anything other than basic security updates, and allows certain open source components to languish. For example, while Snow Leopard already has version 1.4.5 of CUPS, Leopard, even at 10.5.8 and with Apple's security updates that came after it, is still at version 1.3.11. And with that said, keep in mind that if you don't know what you are doing you can completely DESTROY your ability to print, which will require an operating system re-install or a backup restore. Unless you're comfortable building from source and know how to handle anything that might go wrong, LEAVE THIS ALONE. Please. And backup your hard drive or make sure that your Time Machine backups are working BEFORE you install this. Please.

you can check your CUPS version via the Terminal cups-config --version My 10.6.5 Mac had 1.4.5 already installed.