Linux Printing: Still Awful After All These Years

[Neil Watson]

I find printing to be one of the weakest services on a Linux host.  When
I bought my printer in 1999 I specifically made sure it was a
postscript printer so that driver problems would not affect me.  While
my printer still works today I have not been exempt from a host of
printing problems, using multiple distributions, over the years.

After software upgrades printing would stop working.  Reinstalling
several packages fixed the problem but a root cause was never found.  
The device permissions for the parallel port would change and normal
users were denied access.  To this day I cannot print text from the
command line without suffering the classic staggering effect.

-- 
Neil Watson
System Administrator for hire 
http://watson-wilson.ca
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