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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

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.

Printing Remotely

  • Remote printers need to use an IPP URL in the form of http://hostname:631/printers/queue for Fedora cups servers. You should be able to see the printer configuration page in a standard web browser from the remote system. Hence, printer dialog boxes may require that the "remote queue" be printers/queuename, instead of just "queuename".
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