By: davee
22 Oct 2004 4:36am GMT 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). I print so little that I’ve never really taken the time to do this properly, but it is a limitation.
By: mrBen
22 Oct 2004 4:36am GMT Heh – I’ve not really had many problems with printing under Linux, but then, like davee, I don’t do that much anyway. I think things are 100% better than they were before 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. It would be nice, as always, if the...