Glynn Foster wrote: ... cut ... >> know what you are doing. But we want to make it better really :) That >> is, if only you have a vague idea, all the tasks described above can >> be acheived. ...cut ... > > [1] Seriously, printing should be the easiest task in the world. I can > select a default printer from a list of auto-detected printers. > It'll auto-detect what type of printer that is, and tell me the > appropriate settings I can choose from to print my document. If I > plug in a new USB printer directly, it'll tell me that a new printer > is available. Done. No messing around with localhost:631, no messing > around on the command line. And I certainly don't need to know about > LP, CUPS, PAPI or any other underlying technology I'm using.
But printing is the easiest task in the world if you know what you are doing of course and until it goes wrong; you press "print" and the print job pops out on the choosen printer looking like what you expected it to - you hope - so yes I agree completely with [1] above :-) - whoops, that sounds like 'ms windows' - Paul
