[Discuss] Distribution that tests printing

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

If you find a silver bullet for printing, many of us would like to get that
too!

For moderate duty printing, printing directly to a network attached printer
is
pretty awesome.

If you are doing 'across the internet' printing and are fairly 'light duty',
the
remote printer feature in Chrome works pretty well.

Working with distributed printing and plotting, the best I have done is
with
dedicated 'print server' with multiple printers (typically network based,
but
no one printed to them except the 'print server').  But we printed huge post
script plots (think 48" wide and 100' long, totally covered with colored
lines)
of seismic data to find oil and gas.  Industry does that very little any
more,
but it was the way 20 years ago.

I used to support printing for an oil company at a major installation
(distributed
printing, not in the mainframe computer room).  At best it was a headache
with
a rock solid network.  Things have gotten much better, but still not great,
IMHO.