I think it was because of the Unix wars that Unix never succeeded in producing a single unified print driver environment. Printing was one area where Windows did it better.
So this very good news (http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9747520848.html) was arguably achieved because of Linux. And that announcement in turn grew out of the work at the open printing summit last year: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington and of course all the hard work done in recent years that lead up to it. BTW, I know that people on the SLUG list have occasionally asked about Canon's support for Linux, so here is a presentation from the summit that may be of some historical interest: http://www.linux-foundation.org/images/9/9b/2006-10-23-Linux_Printer_Drivers_from_Canon_061022-1.pdf Toratani-san is a nice guy. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
