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On Friday 12 February 2010 21:38:21 pk wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > 1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing |
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> > that when DOS fell out of fashion. |
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> > 2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone? |
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> > 3. Or just use IPC and let dedicated print middleware deal with it. |
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> What's wrong with lpr? |
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Not all lot wrong with it really. |
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As long as you use printers from the era when lpr was written, it works just |
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fine. |
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Now go buy the kind of thing managers usually buy - some weird Chinese thing |
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no-one has ever heard of rebranded as an Olivetti where PCL 5 is the only |
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thing you realistically use to get it to print. |
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Use lpr with that. Let us know how that works out for you. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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