http://schwuk.com/articles/2004/10/22/user-unfriendly From a land of hills and water... Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:35:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://schwuk.com/articles/2004/10/22/user-unfriendly/comment-page-1#comment-50 davee Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:36:20 +0000 http://wordpress.dev/?p=194#comment-50 Yep, printing can be really rubbish under Linux. In fact, I rarely print stuff, but when I do, it’s usually a LaTeX-generated document and that means I can just send postscript to the printer … anything else and I often just send it across to the Windows box on the other side of my office (or to SWMBO’s PC at home).<br /> <br /> I print so little that I’ve never really taken the time to do this properly, but it is a limitation. Yep, printing can be really rubbish under Linux. In fact, I rarely print stuff, but when I do, it&#8217;s usually a LaTeX-generated document and that means I can just send postscript to the printer &#8230; anything else and I often just send it across to the Windows box on the other side of my office (or to SWMBO&#8217;s PC at home).<br />
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I print so little that I&#8217;ve never really taken the time to do this properly, but it is a limitation.

]]> http://schwuk.com/articles/2004/10/22/user-unfriendly/comment-page-1#comment-51 mrBen Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:36:20 +0000 http://wordpress.dev/?p=194#comment-51 Heh – I’ve not really had many problems with printing under Linux, but then, like davee, I don’t do that much anyway. <br /> <br /> I think things are 100% better than they were <em>before</em> CUPS came on the scene, but there is definitely room for improvement. As a point of reference, however, it took only a matter of minutes to install and print over the network from Ubuntu, which was nice. Xandros was just as nice, IIRC. So things are getting there. <br /> <br /> It would be nice, as always, if the hardware manufacturers would get a little more involved, but that is always going to take (far too much) time. Heh &#8211; I&#8217;ve not really had many problems with printing under Linux, but then, like davee, I don&#8217;t do that much anyway. <br />
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I think things are 100% better than they were <em>before</em> CUPS came on the scene, but there is definitely room for improvement. As a point of reference, however, it took only a matter of minutes to install and print over the network from Ubuntu, which was nice. Xandros was just as nice, IIRC. So things are getting there. <br />
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It would be nice, as always, if the hardware manufacturers would get a little more involved, but that is always going to take (far too much) time.

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