Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: Hi,
> I think I understand now what the difference is between > cupsd/saned and hpiod/libhpmud: > > cupsd and saned provide a driver and frontend independent > single central service to do printing and scanning. Exactly. > In contrast the hpiod was an additional special daemon > only for one single driver package (HPLIP). I think they used the daemon to multiplex the access to the MFP devices, as otherwise it was not possible to print & scan "at the same time". JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
