Friday September 10, 2004 Printer Configuration, the sore thumb looses it's soreness
Many of you know that for the average person to setup a printer on Solaris has been historically a challenge. In fact, this is not only for Solaris but most all flavors of UNIX and it's clone cousins.
Solaris 10 shows some promise in this area, as the print team has made a great attemp to turn this task into a present day solution.
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Yes, Solaris now includes more than 4000 printer support files that make it easy to configure an attached printer on a port of your Solaris system, or a network accessible printer.
This is really something that was sorely needed, hence my reference to it being a sore thumb.
In addition, the new USB frameworks being added make adding a USB printer easy as well, and the Solaris Print Manager is smart enough to gather information to populate the dialog for many USB printers.
Many thanks go to the print team for making both of our thumbs, ours and your's, feel better!
( Sep 10 2004, 01:55:48 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [6]