Tag: printing

  • Network printing

    It’s nearly two years since I wrote about session printing, in which the user doesn’t need to modify a locally running CUPS instance in order to print to a network printer. The main advantage of having printing running entirely in the user session is that no special privileges are needed. After all, all you need…

  • Some benefits of printerd

    Recently I talked about a new print spooler under development, printerd. In that post I mentioned briefly how printerd is structured, but did not go very deeply into why or what the project is for. Firstly, printerd is experimental and is very far from being a functional print spooler. It doesn’t yet run any filters,…

  • Announcing printerd

    For the last few weeks I’ve been working on an experimental new print spooler called printerd. It was designed in collaboration with Richard Hughes and it aims to be a modern print spooler for Linux. It is a polkit-enabled D-Bus system service, written using the GLib object system. Although modelled on concepts from IPP (Internet…

  • Session printing

    There has been a discussion on the Fedora devel mailing list recently about user session printing: why that might be useful, and in what circumstances it makes sense. Where I can see it can make some sense to have printing entirely in the user session is for PDF printing to smart services hosted elsewhere: e.g.…

  • CUPS 1.6 changes ahead

    As I mentioned elsewhere, there are some changes ahead in CUPS 1.6. These changes are not imminent but give an indication of the direction the CUPS project is heading. Back in 2007 CUPS became an Apple project.  Now the parts that are not relevant on Mac OS are being dropped, with some of the Linux-relevant…