From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:41:32 +0200 From: Alexander Bokovoy To: devel@altlinux.ru Message-ID: <20020213174132.GB3308@sam-solutions.net> Mail-Followup-To: devel@altlinux.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [devel] Fw: [Osdem]Printing with free Software, Sunday 10:30am Sender: devel-admin@altlinux.ru Errors-To: devel-admin@altlinux.ru X-BeenThere: devel@altlinux.ru X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: devel@altlinux.ru List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: ----- Forwarded message from Till Kamppeter ----- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:31:26 +0100 From: Till Kamppeter To: aburet@fosdem.org, osdem@lists.raphinou.com Subject: [Osdem]Printing with free Software, Sunday 10:30am User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914 Reply-To: osdem@lists.raphinou.com Oi, here is what I will tell about printing, the talk is aimed to every one who is interested in printing infrastructures, interfaces, and drivers: Printing with Free Software, the New Generation ----------------------------------------------- For long time printing under Linux and Unix was done with technology of the 70th, with LPD. This printing system was developed ehen one has only ASCII text printers and nowadays the printers do much more than only printing text: Colours, graphics, photos, different paper types, stapling, binding, and more. But in many cases the ancient printing system, which does not support all these options and which is also difficult to maintain in networks, is still used. Recently the situation changed substantially: New printing systems replace the old LPD: CUPS, PPR, LPRng, and PDQ. They give access to all the printer's capabilities, are easier to use and to configure, and give much more security in networks. To allow an easy configuration of all existing free software printer drivers under all spoolers, I am maintaining an XML database on http://www.linuxprinting.org/ which lists all printers and drivers and automatically generates configuration files for every spooler/driver/printer combo via Perl scripts. But even with such a database there are still problems as the necessity of compiling drivers into GhostScript, no back channels to report the printer status, no propagation of printer capabilities info through networks, ... These problems were discussed as I have been on last year's Printing Summit (http://www.osdn.com/conferences/printing/). Solutions for these problems are under development and first implementations are available. Till P. S.: I am searching for people who help me maintaining the printer database on linuxprinting.org. _______________________________________________ Osdem mailing list Osdem@lists.raphinou.com http://www.raphinou.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osdem ----- End forwarded message ----- -- / Alexander Bokovoy Software architect and analyst // SaM-Solutions Ltd. --- Save the Whales -- Harpoon a Honda.