David D. Hagood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andreas Mohr wrote: > >> Add to that the fact that CUPS gets rather completely rid of the useful >> Unix filter machanism, and you really start to wonder whether CUPS really >> is better than say lpd+printtool. Quite the other way around or so... > > >Actually, I do beleive that CUPS does use a filter mechanism internally. > But I do agree - I'm not as sure that CUPS is all that much better. >But to REALLY fix printing would mean far more than what CUPS can do - >IMHO what we need is more of a RPC style system, where the client app >communicates bidirectionally with the print server, so that the client >can ask "What can you do for me?", the server responds "I can staple, >collate, bind, and add gold leaf inlay", and the client can present that >to the user. Maybe some sort of XML/SOAP sort of thing.... (-1, Offtopic).
Hmm... Cups already does this for me. :) []'s Raul Dias (yes, I broke my mailer subject support)
