Thread: Printing from Nokia 770
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msaunby is offline msaunby
2006-01-04 , 19:18
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#9
Originally Posted by CrossBow
My Nokia 9500 prints (not perfectly, but OK) to networked printers, IRDA printers and BT printers, so Nokia has thought of this.

I think the better question is "Who is porting LPD/CUPS to the 770?"

If we had this, then the only problem would be Opera. Opera themselves would have to add printing support. Seeing that Opera prints on desktop versions, and on Series 80, there should be little effort needed.

As far as the rest of the apps, it would be up to the individual coder/porter to add/port printing support.

I did not see LPD or CUPS in the Maemo Wiki ApplicationCatalogWIP or Wishlist.
To satisfy my own curiosity I've tried porting quite a few things to the 770. In general, if it doesn't have a GUI, then it seems to port quite easily and/or existing ARM executables are fine. GTK gui's should port, but they'll need some tweaking as few people ever anticipated screens on Linux boxes getting smaller.

What it perhaps more significant with a new device like this - it's not just a minature PC - is what form should applications and services take. My personal solution to the printing issue is most likely to be a printme@myserver solution. i.e. I email the url or document home for auto printing (or more likely spolling for printing later). This will be on the same box that runs SlimServer for my music streaming to the 770, webcams, with VNC and ssh access, and of course scratchbox and maemo for building 770 applications.