Printing

Fedora Printing Project

The Fedora Printing Project's goal is to create a good printing experience on Fedora.

Ideas about the new printer administration tool

• Outline

• Specifics

• New Printer dialog

• I18n of the printer options

Tasks

• (DONE) SELinux policy might need updating

• (DONE) HAL changes for IEEE 1284 IDs. Needs to store COMMANDSET field, and needs to probe parallel ports for printers.

• (DONE) new HAL method for dealing with a printer being plugged in

• eggcups dialog changes

• create foomatic printer XML entries for all PPDs. Currently foomatic ships with lots of PPDs, but several of them have no XML entries to hold the autodetection strings.

• better SMB browser

• need to fix 'hal' backend to provide IEEE 1284 Device ID

• HAL 'new printer' method could enable hplip service on demand

CUPS 1.2

We will be shipping CUPS 1.2 as an update to Fedora Core 5 as soon as is feasible. There are some changes to be aware of for the admin side.