9.1 Proposal: Printing support

[Jim Gettys]

Note there is a client library for IPP for cups that can talk to remote
servers, without having to run a spooler locally.  This may be a better
option....
                   - Jim


On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:58 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 16:24 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > *But*, we should be able to:
> >     *  Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
> > school server via CUP (IPP?),
> 
> cups uses IPP under the hood and IPP is definitely the route to go as
> it's basically The Standard in printing these days.  One thing that
> would probably be interesting for OLPC with cups, though, would be
> working on making it so that the daemon can be started on-demand rather
> than having to start on start-up.  There's some support in cupsd for
> this already, but it's tied to launchd on OS/X.  
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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