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Re: Questions on printing

I sooo agree with Patrick about getting the Linux community to work on a printing method that will be universal and at the same time unique, something that we can call ours and not a copy of MS-Windows. We shall call it "U-NIC printing environment" or something like that. I, myself, though of starting to work on this but it is very complicated, and what I can do has already been done by "Apsfilter". In the search for "U-NIC PE" I found that is not a Linux or UNIX problem, but the companies making the printers. It is true that technology is improving, but not at the rate of the market is exploiting it. 
That's my two cents.

On 2002.08.20 02:54 Patrick Wiseman wrote:

I thought _I'd_ snipped voraciously.  _Your_ snip lost all context.
So I
hope anyone keeping up has kept up.

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Neal Lippman wrote:

> On Monday 19 August 2002 21:54, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > <SNIPPED> <-- whatever context this dialog had :)
>
> Yeah, I don't argue that for many the "common dialog" bit just isn't
the
> right thing, and in keeping with the unix philosophy, everything
should
> eventually pipe down to a common command line command, eg lp or lpr.

Which makes "common dialog" redundant.

> Part of this question relates to whether Linux is now, or ever,
going to
> really challenge Windows on the desktop (vs server market). If so,
then
> things like common look and feel are going to be important since not
everyone
> is willing to spend and evening hacking on getting printing working
with all
> of his apps. That's the one way, IMHO, that windows does win over
linux - you
> install an app, and it just works with your printers automagically.

CUPS does that.

And I know that's what all the KDE/GNOME stuff is about (personally,
I'm
very happy with XFce), but I really think anyone who wants to distract
people from the M$ "OS" is barking up the wrong tree by trying to
_emulate_ it.  Someone should just supply something _different_ which
is
useful.  OpenOffice, to go off on a tangent, strikes me as an example
- it
_emulates_ M$ bloatware - why would you do that, as opposed to
providing
something different and better?

> I agree that cups seems to be _part_ of the answer, and cupsys-bsd
is clearly
> a missing link - I think I must not have that, since my original
debian
> install gave me both cups (which I asked for) and lpd (which I did
not), so
> my installed version of lpr looks for lpd, which i don't have
running.
>
> I'll look around for cupsys-bsd.

apt-get install cupsys-bsd

should take care of it.

--
Patrick Wiseman                               pwiseman@mindspring.com
Linux user #17943                             *Google First, Ask
Later*
      With 39 left to play, and up 19 in the loss column,
                the Braves' Magic Number is 21!


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