[JDEV] Jabber Printing Services

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

I would suggest that before you go and create yet another printing protocol
that you instead just create a LPD transport. 

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul at umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrugger at lexmark.com [mailto:mrugger at lexmark.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 3:30 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] Jabber Printing Services
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been exploring an idea I have about expanding the 
> GNU/Linux printing
> architecture by making use of Jabber.  I'm currently writing 
> up such a proposal
> but I wanted to get some feedback first.
> 
> Basically, the purpose of this solution would be to obtain 
> printer status from a
> printer and to query printer capabilities and possibly submit 
> print jobs
> (amongst other possibilities).  There are currently other 
> efforts going on to
> solve these problems but I see a lot of potential in using 
> Jabber for such a
> purpose.  Additionally, these other efforts are not 
> necessarily incompatible
> with what I have in mind.  In fact, I see a Jabber solution 
> enhancing them.
> 
> I know that's not enough to really get a complete feel for 
> what I'm talking
> about.  But right now I'm curious as to if there is any 
> interest in the Jabber
> development community concerning such a proposal?  I believe that the
> client/server model of the Jabber architecture lends itself 
> well to solving some
> of these printing issues.  Also, I think that a set of 
> printing services based
> on Jabber would go a long way in proving how instant 
> messaging, as architected
> in Jabber, can solve a lot more problems than just instant messaging.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcus
> 
> 
> 
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