----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Tellis" philip.tellis@gmx.net To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Printing and Linux
Sometime Today, K cobbled together some glyphs to say:
Printing subsystem always baffles me. Printing in windows is very intuitive and easy. If I fire print job and if print cord is not connected to printer or printer is offline print spooler flashes
yeah, it's one of the things that are still immature in unix, but
CUPS
is trying to change that.
Before anyone brings up the topic, this has nothing to do with
vendors
not releasing their specs. This is purely a usability issue, it
should
work well even if you're just printing to a file, but it doesn't.
We're at a stage where handing a job over to the print spooler (cups
for
example) shows it up in the print queue. This is no different from
15
years ago, except that we now have a nice gui to show us the print queue.
I was wondering is it only Linux which has such horrible print sub system? What about FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD? How does commercial UNIX operating system like Salaries, Hp-UX fair in printing?
Regards,
Komal