Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 17:48:49 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > Hi, Michael. > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:03:19PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > > Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised > > > interfaces, protocols and formats? > > > > How about IPP? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol > > > > Oh wait... that's what cups is using. > > Ah yes, a standard. So we have the choice between all the IPP > implementations. That's cups and, ... err - is there another one?
Well, there's lprng-ipp. Not in portage though http://jointlab.upol.cz/~michale/projects/lprng-ipp/ For other OSes there are other implementations available. > But why should I have to use an over the top bloated "Internet" protocol? > I've got one single printer on the end of a USB cable. I want a simple > spooler, as simple as possible and not simpler. > > > > No, the sane alternative is to use the `lpr' command, possibly > > > augmented by special arguments for particular spoolers, but always > > > having a fallback to standard `lpr'. That way, everybody's happy. > > > Even me. ;-)> > > How about the lpr command provided by cups? > > Does it not work for you? > > I believe it did work for me for the short time I had cups installed. > More pertinent is, why won't the lpr command work for LibreOffice? Because LibreOffice uses ipp for printing. Michael
