[JDEV] Jabber Printing Services

[mrugger at lexmark.com]

Indeed!  Why would I want to go off and reinvent the wheel?

The short answer is, I don't.  I just want to use your wheel instead, because
your wheel has more features!

Or, at least I think it does from what I've read.  I'll write up some more later
and then you can rip me to shreds.  How's that?

Thanks,

Marcus





nneul%umr.edu at interlock.lexmark.com on 03/27/2000 04:52:39 PM

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cc:    (bcc: Marcus Rugger/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject:  RE: [JDEV] Jabber Printing Services



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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> -----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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