Description
Videos of the Topics:
Printing in Linux as of today (00:0)
Aveek Basu and Till Kamppeter
Common Print Dialog Backends (29:14)
Rithvik Patibandia
Working with SANE to make IPP scanning a reality (51:51)
Aveek Basu
Printer/Scanner Application - The new format for printer and scanner drivers (1:15:30)
Till Kamppeter
The Future of Printer Setup Tools - IPP Driverless Printing and IPP System Service (2:05:10)
Till Kamppeter
3D Printing without the use of any slicer (2:20:04)
Aveek Basu
The Open Printing (OP) organisation works on the development of new printing architectures, technologies, printing infrastructure, and interface standards for Linux and Unix-style operating systems. OP collaborates with the IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG) on IPP projects.
We maintain cups-filters which allows CUPS to be used on any Unix-based (non-macOS) system. Open Printing also maintains the Foomatic database which is a database-driven system for integrating free software printer drivers with CUPS under Unix. It supports every free software printer driver known to us and every printer known to work with these drivers.
Today it is very hard to think about printing in UNIX based OSs without the involvement of Open Printing. Open Printing has been successful in implementing driverless printing following the IPP standards proposed by the PWG as well.
Proposed Topics:
Working with SANE to make IPP scanning a reality. We need to make scanning work without device drivers similar to driverless printing.
Common Print Dialog Backends.
Printer/Scanner Applications - The new format for printer and scanner drivers. A simple daemon emulating a driverless IPP printer and/or scanner.
The Future of Printer Setup Tools - IPP Driverless Printing and IPP System Service. Controlling tools like cups-browsed (or perhaps also the print dialog backends?) to make the user's print dialogs only showing the relevant ones or to create printer clusters.
3D Printing without the use of any slicer. A filter that can convert a stl code to a gcode.
If you are interested in participating in this microconference and have topics to propose, please use the CfP process. More topics will be added based on CfP for this microconference.
MC leads
Till Kamppeter (till.kamppeter@gmail.com ) or Aveek Basu (basu.aveek@gmail.com)
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Aveek Basu, Till Kamppeter10/09/2019, 10:00
Today’s is a scenario when we can not think of having either a mobile phone or a laptop or a tablet. With the progress of technology and having all these handheld devices, we have been able to get many of our documents digitized. However, whatever advancements we see in this space of documentation, it is still very hard to find someone who did not have the need to print or scan a hard copy....
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Rithvik Patibandla, Till Kamppeter10/09/2019, 10:20
The OpenPrinting project “Common Print Dialog Backends” provides a D-Bus interface to separate the print dialog GUI from the communication with the actual printing system (CUPS, Google Cloud Print, e.t.c.) having each printing system being supported with a backend and these GUI-independent backends working with all print dialogs (GTK/GNOME, Qt/KDE, LibreOffice, e.t.c.). This allows for easily...
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Aveek Basu10/09/2019, 10:50
Printing at today’s date has progressed a lot and the world is already utilising the benefits of driverless printing. In today’s scenario it is very hard to think of a printer without a scanner. But unfortunately a technology like driverless scanning has yet to see the light of the day. In today’s date you cannot think of using a scanner without a scanner driver. We want to discuss more on...
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Till Kamppeter10/09/2019, 12:00
The upstream author of CUPS has deprecated the classic way to implement printer drivers, describing the printer's capabilities in PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files and providing filters to convert standard PDLs (Page Description Languages) into the printer's own, often proprietary data format. With the background of PostScript not being the standard PDL any more, most modern (even the...
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Till Kamppeter10/09/2019, 12:30
Very common in the daily life of computer users are printer setup tools, these GUI applications where you configure a queue for a new printer which you want to use. You select the printer from auto-detected ones and choose a driver for it, nowadays it gets rather common that the driver is selected automatically. You also set option defaults, like Letter/A4, print quality, …
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Aveek Basu10/09/2019, 13:00
Currently to print an stl model in a 3D printer the same needs to be sliced first into a gcode to be understandable by a 3D printing software. In Linux we do not have any filter that can convert a stl code to a gcode. First we plan to discuss on what is the current scenario and then what can we do to fit in Linux.
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