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Re: Printing and Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Dec 24 01:20:34 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 00:13 -0600, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hmm...I wonder if there's something you can hook into to adjust the
> default printer right before the printer window opens - if you combine
> that with Tim's idea of prepending each printer with some kind of
> location identifier, you could have it automatically scroll to the
> section of printers near where the machine is. (Or alternatively, have a
> mechanism to automatically set the default printer based on IP address?)
Athena machines already have a mechanism to set the default printer name
(Hesiod print clusters).
For non-athena Linux and OSX machines, I am not aware of any CUPS
mechanism for autoconfiguring the default printer based on browse
information, but it's possible there's one I don't know about.
