Open Printing

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded, mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including management, reliability, security, scalability, printer feature access and network accessibility. Open Printing has been driving the print architecture and how the world prints in any Linux Distribution and now also is an integral part of Google Chrome OS. This is achieved by: . creating a Common Printing Dialog for all applications and desktops . developing standard APIs for printing . collecting information about printers and printer drivers and providing the drivers in distribution-independent packages . integrating them in existing operating systems . providing the tools for publishing printer drivers in distribution-independent packages. . Switching to PDF as Standard Print Job Format