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20040910 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.

(Click on above to display large images)

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]

Comments:

This is awesome. It seems like almost every other day something is revealed about Solaris 10 that will make it a ground-breaking release. The jump from Solaris 8 to 9 (and 7 to 8 etc.) included a great set of improvements, but the progress of 10 is just phenomenal. Do the developers actually get any sleep at Sun ? This is fantastic news - looking forward to the final release :)

Posted by Mark Round on September 10, 2004 at 02:46 AM PDT #

Mark,

I hear some of the developers do sleep, but I haven't been able to verify it...;-) Seriously, this is a great release coming...I'm very much looking forward to it myself...Thanks for the compliments, I'll pass them along to the engineers.

Posted by Alan DuBoff on September 10, 2004 at 04:38 AM PDT #

Hey I got my HP Laserjet 6L working on 10. This was great. I can now print up resume's. This MCSE has completly dumped windows at home. I run only solaris 10. Giddy up!

Posted by Karl on September 10, 2004 at 09:06 AM PDT #

What skin are you using with gnome?

Posted by Karl on September 10, 2004 at 09:08 AM PDT #

Karl,

I don't use GNOME too much, I mainly use KDE. You can get it from the Companion CD, I'm using the latest S9U7 Companion CD KDE on S10.

Posted by Alan DuBoff on September 10, 2004 at 11:02 PM PDT #

Thank you SUN! You cannot imagine how happy this screenshot made me! Now, will it work with my Apple USB print server?

Posted by Matthew McGee on November 02, 2004 at 08:42 AM PST #

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