[LUGSB] Print from Anywhere

Aaron Pellman-Isaacs apellman at ic.sunysb.edu
Sun Apr 27 00:58:01 EDT 2008


At least on the mac side (which is all I've gotten to play with it on 
yet) it adds a printer type to use a pharos queue system and an 
application that's called when that queue is activated that prompts for 
and sends a username (popup). All the uni app is is a bundling of 
pharos' system plus the info specific to stonybrook and a driver for the 
actual printers we use. It's possible that if pharos makes a linux 
client (cant check now, heading out the door) that we cna just use the 
info it enters (it's all stored in the app package, easily findable, I 
glanced at it a while back) to add the appropriate support to linux...
--Aaron

Benjamin Kudria wrote:
> On Sunday 27 April 2008 00:12:20 am Benjamin Bannier wrote:
>   
>> after reading a little article[1] in the current Statesman I just
>> checked the website for "Print from Anywhere"[2]. From the software
>> downloads they provide it looks like again they thought of Mac and
>> Windows support only.
>>
>> Is this correct?
>>
>> I have a Linux user's personal Open Standards/Free Information advocacy
>> mail to Matthew Fröhlich[3] in my Drafts folder, since I like the idea
>> that the complaints start already before the launch party, but I'd just
>> like to check I do not get it wrong ...
>>
>> Who's the one with the crystal ball again?
>>     
>
> I saw that, and I was disappointed by the Windows/Mac monopoly, and also by 
> the fact that there was absolutely no info on how the system worked, 
> technically.  I bet running the Windows app with Wine might yield some more 
> info.
>
> Ben Kudria
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