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[Raul Dias]

David D. Hagood <wowbagger at sktc.net> 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. :)

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Raul Dias

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