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| Printing on Linux has changed a lot from debian Wheezy to debian Jessie. Now you can print out of any application which supports the CUPS. At the moment we support both of the printing systems available at the ETH. The old VPP printing system with mostly Xerox printers as well as the new Nashuatec printers connected via samba. | Printing on Linux has changed a lot from debian Wheezy to debian Jessie. At the moment we support both of the printing systems available at the ETH. The old VPP printing system with mostly Xerox printers as well as the new Nashuatec printers connected via samba. In the future, the VPP system will go end of life and the printers will be replaced with new Nashuatec printers. As we did a complete rework of the printing accessibility there are some significant changes for the users. The main difference is, that every client runs it's own CUPS (printserver) instead of the former central printserver (ipp2vpp.ee.ethz.ch). As a consequence of that, you can now print out of any application which supports the CUPS. |
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| On one hand, there are is the old VPP printing system which already worked on Wheezy machines. The only difference is that you won't have to print over LPR/ GTKLP as you can print from any application now. | On one hand, there are is the old VPP printing system which already worked on Wheezy machines. you won't have to print over LPR/ GTKLP as you can print from any application now. |
Linux
Printing on Linux has changed a lot from debian Wheezy to debian Jessie. At the moment we support both of the printing systems available at the ETH. The old VPP printing system with mostly Xerox printers as well as the new Nashuatec printers connected via samba. In the future, the VPP system will go end of life and the printers will be replaced with new Nashuatec printers.
As we did a complete rework of the printing accessibility there are some significant changes for the users. The main difference is, that every client runs it's own CUPS (printserver) instead of the former central printserver (ipp2vpp.ee.ethz.ch). As a consequence of that, you can now print out of any application which supports the CUPS.
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- On one hand, there are is the old VPP printing system which already worked on Wheezy machines. you won't have to print over LPR/ GTKLP as you can print from any application now.