Category: Software

  • Choosing the best printer driver

    In an ideal world there would be no need to choose which printer driver to use, and all printers would use the same driver (or, say, one driver for raster images, and another for vectors).  That’s the goal of IPP Everywhere.  In the mean while, there is often a choice of different drivers to use. …

  • Ricoh supplies Device IDs

    I’ve mentioned before about how the automatic printer driver installation feature in Fedora 13 requires IEEE 1284 Device IDs to be provided by both printer devices and printer drivers so they can be matched together.  I gave a presentation about this at the OpenPrinting Summit in April. Since then I’ve been helping Ricoh fix the…

  • system-config-printer now has a mailing list

    For those of you interested in participating in system-config-printer development, I invite you to join the new mailing list.

  • Firewall adjustments

    I’ve just released version 1.2.1 of system-config-printer.  One of the changes is that it now uses the D-Bus API of the Fedora firewall tool to actually make firewall adjustments that it needs.

  • Presenting at OpenPrinting Summit today

    Just a quick note that I’ll be presenting by phone today, Thursday 15th April, at the OpenPrinting Summit on the topic of automatic printer driver installation in Fedora 13.  The talk is at 1600 UTC / 1700 BST, and was not Wednesday as scheduled.  The schedule hasn’t been updated yet, but when it is you…