“The CUPS Web interface, which you can find by going to
localhost:631 in a Web browser, is still my preferred printing
manager. I wish more distributions did what openSUSE does, which is
provide a link to this in the system administration menu. It
shouldn’t be a big secret, and the attempts of Gnome and KDE to
reinvent this particular wheel do not improve on it.“Interface issues aside, the other chronic issue with printing
in Linux is printer drivers. This is something that has improved
considerably, though Linux users still have to shop carefully to
make sure they get well-supported printers. The Gutenprint project
does a nice job of supporting color and monochrome printers, the
HPLIP project is pretty good for HP printers, Foomatic and
OpenPrinting support a lot of printers, and they’re all kind of
blending together anyway, so managing all of these disparate driver
projects is getting easier for users.”
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