Hi all on the list,
I setted-up this fabumous program, withe
the help of Till.
It runs perfectly, better than before
with the original
configuration.
I recommend it to all.
Thanks to Till.
Eric
Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
> Oi,
>
> I have been on the Linuxtag 2000 in Stuttgart and have presented my free
> software project "X Printing Panel"
> (http://www.phy.uni-bayreuth.de/till/xpp/). On the fair I have also
> talked with Stefan Siegel about it and he liked it an recomended to post
> the suggestion to put it into Mandrake onto the Cooker list.
>
> In reality I suggest to include not only my software. The first one is
> CUPS (www.cups.org) which is a free (GPL) new printing daemon which
> replaces the old LPD which is technology of the '70s. The advantages of
> CUPS are:
>
> - Broadcasting: If you configure a printer on one machine, it is
> automatically known on all machines of the network (which machines is
> configurable on the server where the printer is configured.
>
> - Printer classes: If one configures the same physical printer on
> several machines, it is accessible even when only one of the machines is
> running and if one defines a class of a group of printers only one
> printer must be working so that the printout will come out.
>
> - Printing options: This is the most interesting point. Under CUPS all
> options of sophisticated printers (trays, resolutions, duplex, color and
> even things as folders or staplers) are available as they were defined
> by the manufacturer of the printer. So no proprietary software is
> necessary any more for making use of all features of a printer.
>
> - Easy administration: all administration can be done by a WWW
> interface. There is also a KDE administration program called KUPS, see
> www.linuxprinting.org.
>
> - Accounting and Authentification: All printed pages get logged and one
> can reserve printers only for a special part of all users.
>
> To get additional printer drivers one simply can go to
>
> www.linuxprinting.org
>
> or
>
> http://www.phy.uni-bayreuth.de/till/xpp/
>
> and follow the links.
>
> The part I have done is making an easy-to-use graphical frontend for
> CUPS which one uses for printing instead of "lp" or "lpr". It allows
> easy choosing of the desired printer and the options for the printout.
> All options and the default printer can be saved so that every user can
> have his personal options and one does not need to adjust them for every
> printout. The
> program is downloadable under
>
> http://www.phy.uni-bayreuth.de/till/xpp/
>
> I think, including this software makes printing under mandrake really
> much more comfortable and it offers possibilties which had not been
> available for free software before,
>
> Till
