[ale] Linux printing just plain sux.

[Jim Philips]

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 23:27, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Has everyone noticed how printing from Linux just plain sux?  I'm not
> talking about home-user joe who only has one printer and uses lpr.  I'm
> talking about trying to use multiple printers, at multiple locations,
> from various business caliber applications.  For instance, today I am at
> home so I would be using my home printer.  Saturday I might take my
> laptop to my Dad's house and want to print something on his printer.
> Next week I might be in the office and desire to print something there,
> and at night in some hotel hoping to use the shared printer in the
> hotel's business center.
>
> All of those devices are easy to setup w/ CUPs, BUT.... hardly any
> business class applications really utilize CUPs.  OpenOffice has it's
> own printer integration layer (it sux), Mozilla/Firefox can only print
> if you use their own xprint layer, and AbiWord core-dumps every other
> print.  I find it amazingly interesting that Crossover Office (MS Office
> + Wine) prints the best, the most consistently and the easiest.
>
> I like Crossover but find it very lame to keep using MS Office just so
> that I can print consistently and problem-free from Linux.

It sux a little less with KDE. Once you have established printers under KDE's 
print manager, you just set the printer as "kprinter" in apps like Mozilla 
and OpenOffice. That calls the print manager and it's easy from there.
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