The Solaris Printing team and the Desktop team have been working
together to improve the printing experience for Solaris users. One of
the areas that is being addressed is printing management. A few months
ago, the Presto project was initiated on OpenSolaris with the aim of
easing printing configuration management by either making it completely
automated or as hands off as possible.
A Flash demo of Presto at work can be found at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/Movie/. You can download
and install a copy of the prototype bits from
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/Prototype/.
The initial prototype that is *very* rough. It only includes the very
basics...
* Local USB printer hotplug support (in Nevada build 53 and later)
* OSPM Desktop applet and preferences capplet
* Network print queue discovery and automation
We are moving forward to include more features like...
* Network printer hotplug support
* Expanded OSPM capabilities (Queue management, job management, ...)
* Network print queue advertisement
* Print service event notification (errors, completion, ...)
For more information you can go to the Presto project page at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/
As always, comments, question, and participation is not just welcome,
but encouraged.
-Norm
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