> > And what do we do if somebody makes a printer that accepts only 1284.4 ?
>
> If the peripheral only advertises 7/1/3, then printer.c has no choice
> but to bind to it, which is the behaviour with the existing version as
> well as my modified version. This is the case today with the HP OfficeJet
> G series and K series MFPs (they're 7/1/3-only).
>
> Then it's a simple matter for my user-mode 1284.4 driver (ptal-mlcd) to
> start up and maintain a 1284.4 session. Another daemon (ptal-printd) sets
> up a named pipe under /dev/ptal-printd/ that takes raw print data (read:
> "/dev/lp* semantics") and routes it through the 1284.4 protocol stack on
> to the peripheral.
Weird and cool. My concerns are answered to my satisfaction :-)
Regards
Oliver
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