Linux Printing: A Curious Mix of Yuck and Excellence, part 2

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 19, 2008 12:46 PM EDT
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Last week I talked a bit about the bipolar world of printing on Linux: the best of times, the worst of times; the easiest and the hardest; the most reliable and the most annoying. I raised a number of questions such as why do print jobs disappear without a trace, then reappear days later? Printing multiple copies, if you had hit the print button in frustration multiple times. Is this printer really online and working? Does it have enough toner and paper? If there is a problem, why won't it tell me in a reasonable way? Why isn't there an obvious, easy button for "cancel the print job plz, kthx"?

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Printing with Linux is very hit and miss patrokov 34 2,371 Aug 29, 2012 5:21 PM

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