======  openprinting.org: Articles ======

Here are a series of articles related to printing with free software. These are developer-focused; user documentation and tutorials may be found elsewhere on this site. Articles marked `LP' are locally written; others are links to pages elsewhere.

  * ** [[:openprinting:database:linuxkongresstutorial2002|The New Generation of Printing: CUPS and Foomatic]]**
  *  A tutorial about printing with CUPS, Foomatic, and KDE-Print given by Till Kamppeter and Kurt Pfeifle. The hand-out papers (around 100 printed pages) are available on-line and for download. \\ LP; September 25, 2002
  * ** [[:openprinting:database:printingsummit2001|Printing Summit 2001]]**
  *  A report from the second Printing Summit in San Jose. \\ LP; October 29, 2001
  * ** [[:openprinting:database:linuxworld2001|LinuxWorld 2001]]**
  *  A quick report from LinuxWorld 2001 in New York. \\ LP; February 5, 2001
  * ** [[:openprinting:database:lpdmustdie|LPD Must Die!]]**
  *  An open letter to GNU/Linux distributors and developers calling for us to work together to eliminate the klunky scourge of Unix printing. \\ LP; November 1, 2000
  * ** [[http://www.openprinting.org/mfpa.pdf|MFPA Presentation]]**
  *  This is the presentation I will be giving on October 24 at the Multifunction Peripheral Association's annual conference. \\ LP; October 22, 2000
  * ** [[http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~Sglennr/esc300/weave-stc.html|How to work out uniprint weaving parameters]]**
  *  A tutorial on computing parts of the data for a Ghostscript Uniprint driver. New drivers might be better done under the umbrella of the [[http://www.openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stp|gimp-print/stp]] project, but uniprint does have a place in the world.
  * ** Running a GDI Printer Under Linux**
  *  Not actually user documentation; instead, a multipart series describing techniques for reverse engineering printer protocols. \\  Parts: [[http://members.tripod.com/rpragana/GDI-printer.html|1]], [[http://members.tripod.com/rpragana/GDI-printer2.html|2]], [[http://members.tripod.com/rpragana/GDI-printer3.html|3]], [[http://members.tripod.com/rpragana/GDI-printer4.html|4]], [[http://members.tripod.com/rpragana/GDI-printer5.html|5]], [[http://members.tripod.com/rpragana/GDI-printer6.html|6]]. \\  Rildo Pragana; August 30, 2000
  * ** [[:openprinting:database:printingsummit2000|Printing Summit Report]]**
  *  A front-line report of the happenings at the first VA Linux Printing Summit, held July 2000 in California. \\ LP; July 31, 2000
  * ** [[http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0710ipp.html|Printing to get 'Net facelift]]**
  *  A magazine article reporting on the standardization of IPP 1.1. There's actually some substance to the article, and assorted useful links at the bottom. \\ Network World Fusion; July 10, 2000