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

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:59:41 +0100
   From: Thorsten Schnier <tho...@sc...>

   Of course it still needs to be possible to create systems that deal with
   large number of print jobs without user interaction; all this has to
   work over networks, simply piping files through the different stages
   still needs to work. 

There's no particular reason that it can't.  Ideally, the driver
itself would tell the application about the printer capabilities, but
it doesn't have to be that way.

   There's another point. About 8 months ago, I had a phone conversation
   with the Australian head of customer support at Epson. In a request (on
   how to transport the printer to the UK), I had as an aside mentioned I
   was disappointed with the support for Linux. One thing he said was that
   it actually quite difficult for them to write something; where windows
   had lots of APIs where they simply could plug in, linux (and unix in
   general) doesn't have anything like that. 

That's an interesting point.

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