On-demand starting/stopping of cups [was: [Blueprint client-1305-printing-stack-with-mobile-in-mind] Printing Stack with Mobile in Mind]

[Jamie Strandboge]

On 02/04/2014 11:26 AM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> is it actually a less rare task on a desktop ?
>>
>> apart from a professional office desktop I'd say printing at home is
>> nowadays nearly as rare from desktops as it might be from
>> phones/tablets.
> 
> I disagree, I print something from my (home) desktop every week. Also,
> for most printers you need to be connected with a wire to print
> something, which makes printing from phones/tablets quite difficult,
> if possible at all.
> 

I agree, printers are still used a lot. In my experience home users print all
kinds of stuff for work, school, projects, volunteer work, coupons, movie
tickets, etc, etc. Sure, some of this might not have to be printed, but a lot of
it does.

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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