[openbeos] Re: PnP Printers

  • From: "Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:22:07 -0500 (EST)

Francois Vincent <fvincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Is there a way to turn the Printer Kit more Plug'n'Play=3F
>It would be very nice if BeOS could detect what printer is plugged 
in... :-)
>
>I think that XP does it very well...

Printers auto-detection could be done only on busses which include a 
device description / inquiry protocol.
AFAIK, USB printers only today.

PrintKit team members, maybe we should include this request in our 
future printing architecture design discussion=3F

Philippe.
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