Announcing printerd

This is a nice benefit, but the problem is that in most cases it is a program of planned obsolescence for otherwise perfectly adequate printer hardware. Short of mid-range printer manufacturers adopting a standard for rasterizer plugin cards, host (or print server) based rasterization ought to be the most effective way to keep a decent printer from not so gradually turning into an expensive paperweight.

As an example, I have a ~$1K laser printer from a name brand manufacturer that is less than five years old that is in the habit of taking more than a minute to print single pages from innocent looking PDF files. Certainly any well written host based rasterizer could run circles around that.

>Modern OpenGL (with shaders rather than fixed-function pipeline stages) essentially _is_ a Turing-complete programming language.

OpenGL serialization was a poor choice for an example. Something more like a efficient serialization of the PDF rendering model was what I had in mind. A serialization of OpenVG might work nicely, but it appears to be a little too simple.