[JDEV] Jabber Printing Services

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

Have a look at LPRng... It seems to have the most current and featureful LPD
protocol implementation, including authentication support (krb/pgp/etc.)

http://www.lprng.com/

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul at umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrugger at lexmark.com [mailto:mrugger at lexmark.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 6:30 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: RE: [JDEV] Jabber Printing Services
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> Please respond to jdev%jabber.org at interlock.lexmark.com
> 
> To:   jdev%jabber.org at interlock.lexmark.com
> 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
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul at umr.edu
> University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> 
> 
> > -----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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