[Printing-architecture] printerd

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Apr 25 14:38:56 UTC 2012


Till,

Sounds like good material for the "Future of Open Printing" session on Friday.

(and perhaps opens up another opportunity for the dbus-based print dialog?)


On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Tim Waugh has developed a new piece of printing infrastructure. It is some D-Bus service owned by the desktop user which takes PDF print jobs from the application and dispatching it to CUPS, Google Cloud, network printers, ...
> 
> This could especially solve problems like per-user print destinations like Google Cloud Print printers.
> 
> Tim has put up some slides
> 
> http://cyberelk.net/tim/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/printerd.pdf
> 
> Could we let him present them in some session of the OpenPrinting Summit?
> 
> Here is a link with some more background info
> 
> http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/03/08/session-printing/
> 
> and first code:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/printerd
> 
>   Till
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/24/2012 11:57 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:
>> FWIW, I wrote up a couple of slides in case you want me to talk about it:
>>   http://cyberelk.net/tim/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/printerd.pdf
>> 
>> (Note: I won't be here on Thursday)
>> 
>> Tim.
>> */
>> 
> 

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