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What is “Xprint” ?

April 26, 2017Xprint

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What is “Xprint” ?

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In short, “Xprint” is an advanced printing system which enables X11 applications to use devices like printers, FAX or create documents in formats like PostScript, PDF or SVGprint. In long, “Xprint” is a very flexible, extensible, scaleable, client/server print system based on ISO 10175 (and some other specs) and the X11 rendering protocol. Using Xprint an application can search, query and use devices like printers, FAX machines or create documents in formats like PDF or SVGprint. In particular, an application can seek a printer, query supported attributes (like paper size, trays, fonts etc.), configure the printer device to match it’s needs and print on it like on any other X device reusing parts of the code which is used for the video card Xserver…