Re: [Gimp-print-devel] What direction should we be headed?

[Michael S. <mi...@ea...>]

Mike Porter wrote:
> 
> I wonder how much of the basic backend to frontend connection work
> that was done for SANE would be useful for printing?  I don't
> ...

Much of it *is* applicable for printing images, but you'd need to
add network support, support for different file formats, abstract
the hardware interface (for security), and add spooling of jobs.

In the end you would end up reinventing IPP (Internet Printing
Protocol), which is what CUPS implements.

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