Printers

Printer settings.

Goals

• Find and configure local printers (USB, parallel?)
• Find and configure remote printers
• Test functionality
• Set default parameters (per device?)
• Set default printer

Non Goals

• Management of remote print queues
• Management of local print queues
• Advanced management of print jobs

• Sharing a printer (Privacy & Sharing might be a better place)

Relevant Art

Windows 7

OS X 10.6

Discussion

Since the primarily interaction with Printers is not the settings panel it may be useful to specify a bit about them in order to assess their relationship.

• Printing is used primary (solely?) through applications

Guidelines

Original Mockups

Also see Printing

See Also

• http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/system-config-printer/

• http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+presto/GUI

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticPrintDriverInstallation

Development

Development branch in gnome-control-center's git:

• https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/log/?h=wip/feborges/new-printers-panel