Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 21, 2007 9:49 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
In reply to: Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet) by jwb
Parent article: Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)

>If a printer doesn't support open standards (read: postscript)

There is at least one printer model that really sucks with regard to PS; feed it something non-rastered and it will get you "OUT OF MEMORY" and locks up hard - HP LJ2200, kthxbye.
So, is the PCL/LJ rastering in CUPS open enough?

>Their version of "distribution-independent" mean you just ignore the fact that it's an RPM and your distribution is Debian.

While I have to agree that RPM alone is not too nice, the Debian build system is, uh, see yourself:

* pam_mount specfile: 1485 bytes in 1 file.
* Debian files: 3304 bytes (w/o comments) in 7 or more files. There seems to be quite some redundancy in the [across all deb packages] build scripts (e.g. the .postinst/.postrm scripts).