Re: printing in debian/unix is hard...

[Yves Arrouye <arrouye@marin.fdn.fr>]

Carlos Carvalho writes:
 > 
 > I have however a more fundamental objection to the unix print model.
 > It's not good for modern printers that have many configuration
 > options, like color/mono, paper/transparency, high/low resolution,
 > econo mode, etc. The number of alternatives is so big that you need a
 > graphic or menu interface to configure it for each print job.
 > Separating the options in different queues is not feasible because you
 > need to have tens of them. And the configuration interface must be
 > available from the print menu of every application and from the
 > command line. It surely can be done, but I've never heard of it.

If you use a PS printer (or gs) consider trying the psptools package
when it will be available, and use a PPD file which describes your
printer's capacities.

Yves.