Lars Tunkrans wrote: > > > This is not documented in solaris documentation. > There is one snippet of this stuff on bigadmin > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/duplex_printing.html > > so obviously there is a lot of non documented features here. > > Can this documentation please be added to Solaris 10 update 3 or 4 & > Nevada. > > Yes, it can be added to the docs. I will let our tech writer know (if she isn't reading this already). We are working on making significant improvements to the printing related parts of the Answerbook. Our writer is starting to put together bits at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/Documentation/Guide/ I am certain that any and all comments or suggestions will be happily taken. > Then again, do you expect a nontechnical user of staroffice to learn > this stuff ? > The printer GUI dialouges in staroffice and Solaris needs much > improvement > before a USER ( non sysadmin ) will be able to manage even his/her own > printqueue > As for making it easier to use, that is a work in progress. There is work going on to improve access to printer capabilities data (PPD files for now) and better integrate it with a hopefully shrinking set of printing dialogs in use by GUI applications. Gnome 2.16 integrated in Nevada build 53 along with a new GTK+, which includes a common printing dialog for applications to use. Nevada buil 54 will include basic support for this dialog to use a standard printing API to interact with the print service. From there, we expect to improve the data accessible to the printing dialog so that it can provide a more accurate representation of the capabilities available from the printer or print service.
On the management side of things, we are working toward automatic printer/queue discovery and automatic queue creation see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/projects/Presto/ for more information. The goal is that you simply plug the printer in and it becomes available for printing and/or you plug the system into the network and the network printers/queues become available for your use. -Norm
