[Openicc] Linux CM ideology .. Linux CM proposal

[edmund ronald]

Chris,

 The problem here is the enthusiast. A printer will last longer than a
comp, say 4 years, and a user will have 1 to 20 or so packs of paper
floating around his house. The desktop guys can give us a media-choice
interface as a pulldown for each printer queue, or we can have
separate queues, or all of the above.

 I don't think that anything like today's Gutenprint interface or even
Apple's is feasible to inflict on the user any longer. In fact I heard
some print guy called Chris say that he finds the Gutenprint interface
confusing :)

Edmund


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2011, at 3:20 PM, edmund ronald wrote:
>> My feeling is that having a different queue per proset might be a
>> smart way to do things, but of course no one wants a hundred queues
>> hanging around CUPS, so there needs to be a way to vamoose them and
>> bring them back. When I look at CUPS these days I can see 6 or so
>> queues and it drives me crazy, and that's just random test stuff.
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> I do not think we can clean up the print dialog UI on any platform to account for so many devices and/or queues per device, including myriad settings for those queues. That's really why separate "RIP" applications are sold that specialize in this sort of thing. Even ones that use the system printing pipeline, but do not depend on the system print dialog, but rather capture dialog settings and attached them to a hot folder (or whatever).
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> Chris
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