On Fri 16 Aug 2019 at 09:51:15 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 08:47:34PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 15 Aug 2019 at 21:05:10 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 07:41:06PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > I wouldn't try to dissuade anyone from using last century's > > > > technology > > > > if they have their heart set on it [...] > > > > > > C'mon. You /know/ you're talking nonsense. Old is old, and new is > > > new. > > > Beyond that... > > > > > > BTW I still use TeX, so... 1980s. Works a charm, too. > > > > The technology I am referring to (as I think you very well know) is > > the printing system. No more, no less. > > Which is last century by itself. > > > > Nowadays that system often relies on printer/print queue Bonjour > > broadcasts. > > And that is called "jumping to conclusions". > Printing itself haven't changed a bit for last 15 years - a print server > takes user's PS or PDF, mangles it to fit printer's representation (be > it PCL or something else), and feeds it to the printer. By utilizing > unicasts of course. > A user can discover a print server via mDNS multicasts (*not* > broadcasts). Or a user can be told a location of such print server. > > avahi is useful for discovery of CUPS, and that's about it.
Printer discovery is an important aspect of a modern printing system. If a user or institution can get by without it, fine. If not, dbus is required. -- Brian.
