From The Linux Foundation

Printing

Attendees

Session leader(s):

• Till Kamppeter
• Ira McDonald

Participants:

• Glen Petrie (Epson)
• George Liu (Ricoh)
• Christopher Story (Ricoh)
• Naruhiko Ogasawara (Ricoh)
• Evaristo Galamay (Ricoh)
• Uli Wehner (Lanier)
• David Suffield (HP)
• Woo-Seong Yang (Samsung)
• Toratani (Canon)
• Koji Otani (BBR Inc)
• Wendy Phillips (Sun)

Discussion Points

Discussed the problems which DAM-4 attendees posted on cards in the session for deciding which breakouts should take place:

Printer vendors only make packages for a few major distros

• Distributions all different, separate testing, support needed
• Lack of common print pipeline
• Distro-independent LSB driver packages

Detecting capabilities of printers on-the-fly

• No standard method (SNMP network-only, MIBs, PJL, ...)
• No common criteria
• Maybe extending PPD?

Printer support should integrate better with scanner support (driver, install, multi-function) - Scanner part cannot be 2nd class

• WIP in PWG
• SANE into LSB 3.2

User should not have to compile printer driver

• See first card

Printers should look up printer drivers from a common source

• OpenPrinting database

Distros do not ship all available drivers

• Should ship all drivers for environments without internet access
• Distro Issue
• De-facto standard OpenPrinting database
• Automatization with OpenPrinting database query API

Common printing dialog (framework)

• Underway
• Extensibility
  • Application
  • Printer vendor/driver
  • Printing system/distro