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Re: [LUG] Printing again ..

 

On 29/09/11 16:24, Adrian Midgley wrote:
CUPS is farily horrid.  ESR blasted it a while back.  But printing is
generally rather horrid.  I don't see why.

Because people make a huge amount of money out of it. That leads to multiple incompatible specs and associated management problems. Another 'problem' is security - something windows teaches us to ignore but it you have ever seen 'cheques' pouring out of a line printer or better still a very very high level security document miss sent to a 'public' printer for the world to read you may realise that nothing is simple - no matter how much you want it to be. A better idea is to write screen shaped documents so you don’t have to print...
Works much much better but does upset dinosaurs....
Tom te tom te tom

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