> tually all of these can be done on OpenSolaris easy
> enough if you know 
> what you are doing.

You mean, if one is a UNIX and in particular a Solaris expert with a *deep* 
understanding of how System V and BSD printing works? That's the cold, hard 
reality of the state of printing and/or using Solaris as a print server today.

You gotta love the arcane Voodoo-hoodoo-what-you-don't-dare-do-people like 
lpadmin -p <printer name> -o stty="-opost".

Needless to say, personally I am very embittered by printing experience being 
lower than poor in my favorite operating environment.

> But we want to make it better
> really :)

Yes you could. If for instance whatever OS X does for print / PS rendering 
would be duplicated or implemented in Solaris.

> That is, if 
> only you have a vague idea, all the tasks described
> above can be acheived.

Believe me, I have more than "a vague idea" on how System V and BSD printing as 
well as Solaris implementations work, and I've both 10+ years of administration 
and system engineering experience behind me with Solaris. And I tell you that 
printing under Solaris, at least to a direct attached PS3 capable printer is 
dismal, and setting the printers up an arcane science. *Especially* on Solaris 
on the i86pc platform!

> We would like to hear from the OpenSolaris
> communities, what are your 
> experiences on printing on JDS [1]? What are the
> things that are really 
> lacking from the your experiences. How do you think
> things can be 
> improved? etc..

First of all, "if it don't work right, it's BUSTED".
And it does not work right, when it does work at all. Choose the right printer 
from the list, set the correct page size, choose the correct PS filter, and the 
output comes out garbled. And don't even dare to think of printing images or 
even web pages!

And we won't even go into color profiles, color-proofing and professional 
quality color printing. Because it isn't even there! And no, that is not the 
application's job, that's the job of the operating system / printing subsystem 
respectively. At least that's the case on every other mainstream operating 
system and operating environment out there (even IRIX has color-proofing built 
into his Impressario printing subsystem).

So, how could things be improved? Like it says above, study whatever Apple did 
to their PS renderer, and replicate that functionality in (Open)Solaris, and 
case closed.
 
 
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