Re: [libreoffice-design] random question about Internet printing.

Hi Andrew, *,

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Andrew Pullins <android2772@gmail.com> wrote:
> does any one know if that would be something that we would/could put in the
> suite

No, as this doesn't belong to the individual software, but to your
operating system's printing engine.
If you're using linux or Mac, then you're using cups and cups has this
functionality built-in.
You need of course configure the system with the printer accordingly
(i.e. open your firewall accordingly, and allow it to accept
print-jobs via the network). Windows has at least the client-part
(i.e. print to a network-connected-printer somehwere), but not sure
how much effort it would be to make it accept print-jobs from outside-
but then again you can share printers/files & folders in your local
network, sharing it to the internet is not really any different.

> or would you rely on another app to do this? I know that this would
> be a feature that would not be put in right off the bat. but its kinda cool
> to think about.

See above - it is at the printing-level, not at the
application-that-wants-to-print-level where this has to be setup. And
to my knowledge, all current operating systems support this already,
some easier, some a less harder to configure accordingly.

ciao
Christian

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