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+<!--
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
+"customization/dtd/kdex.dtd" [
+<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
+<!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE">
+<!ENTITY glossary-kdeprinting SYSTEM "kdeprintingglossary.docbook">
+
+]>
+<glossary id="glossary">
+-->
+        <glossdiv id="glossdiv-printing">
+                <title>Printing</title>
+ 
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-acl">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>ACLs</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>A</emphasis>ccess
+			<emphasis>C</emphasis>ontrol <emphasis>L</emphasis>ists;
+				ACLs are used to check for the access by a given
+				(authenticated) user. A first rough support for ACLs
+				for printing is available from &CUPS;; this will be refined
+				in future versions. </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-authentication">Authentication</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-appsocketprotocol">
+                        <glossterm>AppSocket Protocol</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>AppSocket is a protocol for the transfer of
+				print data, also frequently called "Direct TCP/IP Printing".
+				&Hewlett-Packard; have taken AppSocket, added a few minor
+				extensions around it and been very successful in renaming
+				and marketing it under the brand "&HP; JetDirect"...</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">&HP; JetDirect Protocol</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-directtcpipprinting">Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+ 
+                <glossentry id="gloss-apsfilter">
+                        <glossterm>APSfilter</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>APSfilter is used mainly in the context of  "classical"
+				&UNIX; printing (BSD-style LPD). It is a sophisticated shell script,
+				disguised as an "all-in-one" filtering program. In reality,
+				APSfilter calls "real filters" to do the jobs needed. It sends
+				printjobs automatically through these other filters, based on an
+				initial file-type analysis of the printfile.
+				It is written and maintained by Andreas Klemm.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				It is
+				similar to Magicfilter and mostly uses Ghostscript for file conversions. 
+				Some Linux Distributions (like &SuSE;) use APSfilter, others
+				Magicfilter (like &RedHat;), some have both for preference selection
+				(like *BSD).
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				&CUPS; has <emphasis>no</emphasis> need for APSfilter,
+				as it runs its own file type recognition (based on &MIME; types)
+				and applies its own filtering logic.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-magicfilter">Magicfilter</glossseealso>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-mimetypes">&MIME;-Types</glossseealso>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printcap">printcap</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-authentication">
+                        <glossterm>Authentication</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Proving the identity of a certain person (maybe via username/password
+				or by means of a certificate) is often called authentication. Once you are
+				authenticated, you may or may not get access to a requested ressource,
+				possibly based on ACLs.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-acl">ACLs</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+ 
+                <glossentry id="gloss-bidirectionalcommunication">
+                        <glossterm>Bi-directional communication</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>In the context of printing, a server or a host may receive additional
+				information sent back from the printer (status messages &etc;), either
+				upon a query or unrequested. AppSocket ( = &HP; JetDirect), &CUPS; and IPP
+				support bi-directional communication, LPR/LPD and BSD-style printing
+				do not...</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-appsocketprotocol">AppSocket Protocol</glossseealso> 
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-directtcpipprinting">Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossseealso> 
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">&HP; JetDirect</glossseealso> 
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lprlpd">LPR/LPD</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">
+                        <glossterm>BSD-style Printing</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Generic term for different variants of the traditional &UNIX;
+				printing method. Its first version appeared in the early 70s on
+				BSD &UNIX; and was formally described in <ulink url="http://www.rfc.net/rfc1179.html">RFC 1179</ulink> only as late
+				as 1990.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				At the time when BSD "remote" printing was first designed, printers
+				were serially or otherwise directly connected devices to a host
+				(with the Internet hardly consisting of more than 100 nodes!); printers
+				used hole-punched, continuous paper, fed through by a tractor
+				mechanism, with simple rows of ASCII text mechanically hammered on to
+				the medium, drawn from a cardboard box beneath the table. It came out
+				like a zig-zag folded paper "snake". Remote printing consisted of a
+				neighboring host in the next room sending a file
+				asking for printout.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				How technology has changed! Printers generally use cut-sheet media, they have
+				built-in intelligence to compute the raster images of pages after pages
+				that are sent to them using one of the powerful page description
+				languages (PDL). Many are network nodes in their own right,
+				with CPU, RAM, a hard disk and their own Operation System, and
+				are hooked to a net with potentially millions of users...
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+                                It is a vast proof of the flexible &UNIX; concept for doing things,
+				that it made "Line Printing" reliably work even under these modern
+				conditions. But time has finally come now to go for something new
+				-- the IPP.
+																
+				It is strong proof of the flexibility of &UNIX;; that "Line Printing" works
+				reliably, even under these modern conditions. But time has finally come now
+				to go for something new -- the IPP.
+				
+				</para>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lprlpd">LPR/LPD printing</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+ 
+                <glossentry id="gloss-cups">
+                        <glossterm>&CUPS;</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>C</emphasis>ommon
+				<emphasis>U</emphasis>NIX <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting
+				<emphasis>S</emphasis>ystem; &CUPS; is the most modern &UNIX; and Linux
+				printing system, also providing cross-platform print services
+				to &Microsoft; &Windows; and Apple &MacOS; clients. Based on IPP, it does
+				away with all the pitfalls of old-style BSD printing,
+				providing authentication, encryption and ACLs, plus many more
+				features. At the same time it is backward-compatible enough
+				to serve all legacy clients that are not yet up to IPP, via
+				LPR/LPD (BSD-style).
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				&CUPS; is able to control any &PostScript; printer by
+				utilizing the vendor-supplied PPD (PostScript Printer
+				Description file), targeted originally for &Microsoft; Windows NT
+				printing only. &kde; Printing is most powerful if based on
+				&CUPS;.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-acl">ACLs</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-authentication">Authentication</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprint">KDEPrint</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lprlpd">LPR/LPD</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ppd">PPD</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+ 
+                <glossentry id="gloss-cupsfaq">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>&CUPS;-FAQ</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Currently only available in German (translation is on the way),
+				the <ulink url="http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html">&CUPS;-FAQ</ulink> 
+				is a valuable resource to answer many questions that anyone new to 
+				&CUPS; printing might have at first.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprinthandbook">KDEPrint Handbook</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-cups-o-matic">
+                        <glossterm>&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>&CUPS;-O-Matic was the first "Third Party" plugin for
+				the &CUPS; printing software. It is available on the  <ulink 
+				url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html">Linuxprinting.org
+				website</ulink> to provide an online PPD-generating service.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				Together with the companion <application>cupsomatic</application> Perl-Script,
+				that needs to be installed as an additional &CUPS; backend,
+				it redirects output from the native <application>pstops</application> filter into
+				a chain of suitable Ghostscript filters. Upon completion, it
+				passes the resulting data back to a &CUPS; "backend" for sending
+				to the printer.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				In this way, &CUPS;-O-Matic enables support for any printer known to
+				have worked previously in a "classical" Ghostscript environment.
+				If no native &CUPS; support for that printer is in sight... &CUPS;-O-Matic 
+				is now replaced by the more capable PPD-O-Matic.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">PPD-O-Matic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-cupsomatic">
+                        <glossterm>cupsomatic</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>The Perl script <application>cupsomatic</application> (plus a working Perl installation
+				on your system) is needed to make any &CUPS;-O-Matic (or PPD-O-Matic) 
+				generated PPD work with &CUPS;. It was written by Grant Taylor, author of
+				the Linux Printing HOWTO and Maintainer of the <ulink 
+				url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi">printer 
+				database</ulink> at the Linuxprinting.org website.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-daemon">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>Daemon</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>D</emphasis>isk
+				<emphasis>a</emphasis>nd <emphasis>e</emphasis>xecution
+				<emphasis>mon</emphasis>itor; <acronym>Daemons</acronym> are present
+				on all &UNIX; systems to perform tasks independent of user
+				intervention. Readers more familiar with &Microsoft; &Windows; might
+				want to compare daemons and the tasks they are responsible
+				with "services".
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				One example of a daemon present on most
+				legacy &UNIX; systems is the LPD (Line Printer Daemon); &CUPS; is
+				widely seen as the successor to LPD in the &UNIX; world and
+				it also operates through a daemon. </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-spooling">SPOOLing</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+ 
+                <glossentry id="gloss-databaselinuxprinting">
+                        <glossterm>Database, Linuxprinting.org</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Already years ago, when Linux printing was still really difficult
+				(only command line printing was known to most Linux users, no device
+				specific print options were available for doing the jobs), Grant Taylor, 
+				author of the "Linux Printing HOWTO", collected most of the available
+				information about printers, drivers and filters in his database.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				With the emerging
+				&CUPS; concept, extending the use of PPDs even to non-PostScript printers,
+				he realized the potential of this database: if one puts the different
+				datablobs (with content that could be described along the lines
+				"Which device prints with which Ghostscript or other
+				filter?", "How well?", and "What command line switches are available?") into
+				PPD-compatible files, he could have all the power of &CUPS; on top of
+				the traditional printer "drivers".
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				This has now developed into a broader
+				concept, known as "Foomatic". Foomatic extends the capabilities
+				of spoolers other than &CUPS; (LPR/LPD, LPRng, PDQ, PPR) to a certain
+				degree ("stealing" some concepts from &CUPS;). The Linuxprinting
+				Database is not a Linux-only stop -- people running other &UNIX;
+ 				based OSes (like *BSD or &MacOS; X) will also find valuable information
+				and software there.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">Linuxprinting database</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-directtcpipprinting">
+                        <glossterm>Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>This is a method that often uses TCP/IP port 9100 to connect
+				to the printer. It works with many modern network printers and has
+				a few advantages over LPR/LPD, as it is faster and provides some 
+				"backchannel feedback data" from the printer to the host sending
+				the job.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-appsocketprotocol">AppSocket Protocol</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">&HP; JetDirect Protocol</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-drivers">
+                        <glossterm>Drivers, Printer Drivers</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>The term "printer drivers", used in the same sense
+				as on the &Microsoft; &Windows; platform, is not entirely applicable
+				to a Linux or &UNIX; platform. A "driver" functionality
+				is supplied on &UNIX; by different modular components working
+				together. At the core of the printer drivers are "filters". Filters convert
+				print files from a given input format to another format that is acceptable
+				to the target printer. In many cases filters may be connected to a whole
+				filter "chain", where only the result of the last conversion is sent to the
+				printer. The actual transfer of the print data to the device is performed by
+				a "backend".
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ppd">PPDs</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">
+                        <glossterm>Easy Software Products</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial
+				software products towards the Free Software community; amongst
+				them the initial version of <ulink 
+				url="http://gimp-print.sf.net/">Gimp-Print,</ulink> the <ulink 
+				url="http://www.easysw.com/epm/">EPM software packaging</ulink> tool 
+				and <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/">HTMLDOC</ulink>
+				(used by the "Linux Documentation Project" to build the PDF versions
+				of the HOWTOs) -- but most importantly:  <ulink 
+				url="http://www.cups.org/">&CUPS;</ulink> (the 'Common &UNIX; Printing
+				System').
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				ESP finance themselves by selling a commercial version
+				of &CUPS;, called <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/">ESP PrintPro,</ulink> 
+				that includes some professional enhancements.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-esp">ESP</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+ 
+                <glossentry id="gloss-encryption">
+                        <glossterm>Encryption</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Encryption of confidential data is an all-important issue if
+				you transfer it over the Internet or even within intranets.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Printing
+				via traditional protocols is not encrypted at all -- it is very easy
+				to tap and eavesdrop &eg; into &PostScript; or PCL data transfered
+				over the wire.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Therefore, in the design of IPP, provision was made for the easy
+				plugin of encryption mechanisms (which can be provided by the same
+				means as the encryption standards for HTTP traffic: SSL and TLS).</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-authentication">Authentication</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ssl">SSL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tls">TLS</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-epson">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>Epson</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Epson inkjets are among the best supported models by Free software
+				drivers, as the company was not necessarily as secretive about their
+				devices and handed technical specification documents to developers.
+				The excellent print quality achieved by Gimp-Print on the Stylus
+				series of printers can be attributed to this openness.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				They have also
+				contracted Easy Software Products to maintain an enhanced version
+				of Ghostscript ("ESP GhostScript") for improved support of their
+				printer portfolio.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">ESP Ghostscript</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-escapesequence">
+                        <glossterm>Escape Sequences</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>The first ever printers printed ASCII data only. To
+				initiate a new line, or eject a page, they included special
+				command sequences, often carrying a leading [ESC]-character.
+				&HP; evolved this concept through its series of PCL language
+				editions until today, having now developed a full-blown
+				Page Description Language (PDL) from these humble beginnings.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pdl">PDL</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-escp">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>ESC/P</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>E</emphasis>pson
+				<emphasis>S</emphasis>tandard <emphasis>C</emphasis>odes for
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rinters. Besides &PostScript; and PCL, Epson's ESC/P
+				printer language is one of the best known.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">hpgl</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-esp">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>ESP</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>E</emphasis>asy
+				<emphasis>S</emphasis>oftware <emphasis>P</emphasis>roducts;
+				the company that developed &CUPS; (the "Common &UNIX; Printing System").
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-espghostscript">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>ESP</acronym> Ghostscript</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>A Ghostscript version that is maintained by Easy Software
+				Products. It includes pre-compiled Gimp-Print drivers for
+				many inkjets (plus some other goodies). ESP Ghostscript
+				will produce photographic quality prints in many cases, especially
+				with the Epson Stylus model series. ESP Ghostscript is GPL-software.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-espprintpro">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>ESP</acronym> PrintPro</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para> This professional enhancement to &CUPS; (the "Common &UNIX; 
+				Printing System") is sold by the developers 
+				of &CUPS; complete with more than 2,300 printer drivers for several commercial
+				&UNIX; platforms. <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/printpro/">ESP PrintPro</ulink>
+				is supposed to work "out of the box" with little or no configuration
+				for users or admins. ESP also sell support contracts for
+				&CUPS; and PrintPro. These sales help to feed the programmers who
+				develop the Free version of &CUPS;.
+			</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+               <glossentry id="gloss-filter">
+                        <glossterm>Filter</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Filters, in general, are programs that take some input
+				data, work on it and pass it on as their output data. Filters
+				may or may not change the data.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Filters in the context of printing, are programs that convert
+				a given file (destined for printing, but not suitable in the
+				format it is presently) into a printable format. Sometimes
+				whole "filter chains" have to be constructed to achieve the
+				goal, piping the output of one filter as the input to the next.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-foomatic">
+                        <glossterm>Foomatic</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of
+				different tools available from <ulink
+				url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/">Linuxprinting.org</ulink>
+				These tools aimed to make the usage of traditional
+				Ghostscript and other print filters easier for users and
+				extend the filters' capabilities by adding more command line
+				switches or explain the driver's execution data.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Foomatic's different incarnations are &CUPS;-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic,
+				PDQ-O-Matic, LPD-O-Matic, PPR-O-Matic, MF-O-Matic and 
+				Direct-O-Matic. All of these allow the generation
+				of appropriate printer configuration files online, by simply
+				selection the suitable model and suggested (or alternate) driver
+				for that machine.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				More recently, Foomatic gravitated towards becoming a "meta-spooling"
+				system, that allows configuration of the underlying print subsystem
+				through a unified set of commands (however, this is much more
+				complicated than KDEPrint's &GUI; interface, which performs a similar
+				task with regards to different print subsystems). </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">PPD-O-Matic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+               <glossentry id="gloss-ghostscript">
+                        <glossterm>Ghostscript</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Ghostscript is a &PostScript; Raster Image Processor (RIP) in software, originally
+				developed by L. Peter Deutsch. There is always a <acronym>GPL</acronym> version
+				of Ghostscript available for free usage and distribution
+				(mostly 1 year old) while
+				the current version is commercially sold under another license.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Ghostscript is widely used inside the Linux and &UNIX; world
+				for transforming &PostScript; into raster data suitable
+				for sending to non-&PostScript; devices.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-gimpprint">
+                        <glossterm>Gimp-Print</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Contrary to its name, Gimp-Print is no longer
+				just the plugin to be used for printing from the popular
+				Gimp program -- its codebase can also serve to be compiled
+				into...
+				<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				*...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly
+				into &CUPS;, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing
+				photographic output quality in many cases;
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				*...a Ghostscript filter that can be used with any other
+				program that needs a software-RIP;
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				*...a library that can be used by other software applications
+				in need of rasterization functions.
+
+
+<!--
+after 4 hours fiddling, I
+could not get those s!@*#?
+<itemizedlist> to pass
+through the meinproc checks.
+For the time being I gave up
+on it and handle it differently
+now.
+				<itemizedlist>
+				<listitem>...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly
+				into &CUPS;, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing
+				photografic output quality in many cases;</listitem>
+				<listitem>...a Ghostscript filter that can be used with any other
+				program that needs a software-RIP;</listitem>
+				<listitem>...a library that can be used by other software applications
+				in need of rasterization functions.</listitem>
+				</itemizedlist>
+-->
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lexmark">Lexmark Drivers</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-hp">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>&HP;</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>H</emphasis>ewlett-<emphasis>Packard</emphasis>;
+				one of the first companies to distribute their own Linux printer
+				drivers. -- More recently, the Company has released their
+				"HPIJS" package of drivers, including source code and a Free license. 
+				This is the first printer manufacturer to do so. HPIJS supports most
+				current models of HP Ink- and DeskJets.
+				</para>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-hpgl">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>&HP;/GL</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>&HP;</emphasis>
+				<emphasis>G</emphasis>raphical <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage;
+				a &HP; printer language mainly used for plotters; many CAD
+				(Computer Aided Design) software programs output &HP;/GL files for
+				printing.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">
+                        <glossterm>&HP; JetDirect Protocol</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>A term branded by &HP; to describe their implementation
+				of print data transfer to the printer via an otherwise "AppSocket" or
+				"Direct TCP/IP Printing" named protocol.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-appsocketprotocol">AppSocket Protocol</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-directtcpipprinting">Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+		<glossentry id="gloss-ietf">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>IETF</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet
+				<emphasis>E</emphasis>ngineering <emphasis>T</emphasis>ask
+				<emphasis>F</emphasis>orce; an assembly of Internet, software
+				and hardware experts that discuss
+				new networking technologies and very often arrive at
+				conclusions that are regarded by many as standards. "TCP/IP"
+				is the most famous example.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				IETF standards, as well as
+				drafts, discussions, ideas and useful tutorials, are
+				put in writing in the famous series of "RFCs", which
+				are available to the public and included in most Linux and
+				BSD distributions.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc">RFC</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-ipp">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>IPP</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting <emphasis>P</emphasis>rotocol;
+				defined in a series of RFCs accepted by the IETF with
+				status "proposed standard"; was designed
+				by the PWG. -- IPP is a completely new design for network printing,
+				but it utilizes a very well-known and proven method for the
+				actual data transfer: HTTP 1.1! By not "re-inventing the wheel",
+				and basing itself on an existing and robust Internet standard,
+				IPP is able to relatively easily bolt other HTTP-compatible standard
+				mechanisms into its framework:
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+					* Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication
+					mechanisms;
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+					* SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred
+					data;
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+					* LDAP for directory services (to publish
+					data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or
+					also to the network; or to check for passwords while
+					performing authentication).
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<itemizedlist>
+					<listitem>Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication
+					mechanisms</listitem>
+					<listitem>SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred
+					data</listitem>
+					<listitem>LDAP for directory services (to publish
+					data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or
+					elso to the network; or to check for passwords while
+					conducting authentication)</listitem>
+				</itemizedlist>
+-->
+				</para>
+
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ietf">IETF</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc">RFC</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tls">TLS</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-kdeprint">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>KDEPrint</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>The new printing functionality of &kde; since version 2.2
+				consists of several modules that translate the features and settings
+				of different available print subsystems (&CUPS;, BSD-style LPR/LPD, RLPR...)
+				into nice &kde; desktop &GUI; windows and dialogs to ease their
+				usage.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Most important for day-to-day usage is "kprinter", the new
+				&GUI; print command. -- Note: KDEPrint does <emphasis>not</emphasis> implement its own
+				spooling mechanism or its own &PostScript; processing; for this it
+				relies on the selected <emphasis>print subsystem</emphasis>
+				-- however it does add some functionality of its own on top of this
+				foundation...
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprinthandbook">KDEPrint Handbook</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-kdeprinthandbook">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>KDEPrint Handbook...</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>...is the name of the reference document that describes KDEPrint
+				functions to users and administrators. You can load it into Konqueror by
+				typing "help:/kdeprint" into the address field. The <ulink
+				url="http://printing.kde.org/">KDEPrint website</ulink>
+				is the resource for updates to this documentation, as well as PDF
+				versions suitable for printing it. It is authored and maintained by Kurt 
+				Pfeifle.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsfaq">&CUPS;-FAQ</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-kprinter">
+                        <glossterm>kprinter</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para><emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is the new powerful
+				print utility that is natively used by all &kde; applications.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Contrary to some common misconceptions,
+				<emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is <emphasis>not</emphasis> a &CUPS;-only tool,
+				but supports different print subsystems. You can even switch
+				to a different print subsystem "on the fly", in between two jobs,
+				without re-configuration. Of course, due to the powerful
+				features of &CUPS;, <emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is
+				best suited for use with a &CUPS; frontend.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				<emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is the successor
+				to "qtcups", which is no longer being actively maintained. It has
+				inherited all the best features of qtcups and added several new ones.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				MOST IMPORTANT: you can use <emphasis>kprinter</emphasis>
+				with all its features in all non-&kde; applications that allow
+				a customized print command, like gv, Acrobat Reader, Netscape,
+				Mozilla, Galeon, StarOffice, OpenOffice and all GNOME programs.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				<emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> can act as a "standalone"
+				utility, started from an X-Terminal or a "Mini-CLI" to
+				print many different files, from different folders, with different 
+				formats, in one job and simultaneously, without the need to first open the
+				files in the applications! (File formats supported this way are &PostScript;,
+				PDF, International and ASCII Text, as well as many different popular graphic
+				formats, such as PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PNM, Sun RASTER, &etc;)
+				 </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qtcups">QtCUPS</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-lexmark">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>Lexmark</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>was one of the first companies to distribute their own Linux printer
+				drivers for some of their models. However, those drivers are binary only
+				(no source code available), and therefore cannot be used to integrate into
+				other Free printing software projects.  
+				 </para>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-linuxprintingorg">
+                        <glossterm>Linuxprinting.org</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Linuxprinting.org = not just for Linux; all &UNIX;-like OS-es,
+				like *BSD and commercial Unices may find useful printing
+				information on this site. This web site is the home for the interesting 
+				Foomatic project, that strives to develop the "Meta Print Spool and Driver
+  				Configuration Toolset" (being able to configure, through one common
+				interface, different print subsystems and their required drivers) with the
+				ability to transfer all queues, printers and configuration files seamlessly
+				to another spooler without new configuration effort. -- Also, they maintain
+				the Printing Database; a collection of driver and device information that
+				enables everybody to find the most current information about printer models,
+				and also generate online the configuration files for any
+				spooler/driver/device combo known to work with one of the common Linux or
+				&UNIX; print subsystems.	
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">Linuxprinting database</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>Linuxprinting.org Database</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>....Database containing printers and drivers that are suitable
+				for them... ...a lot of information and documentation to be found... ...it 
+				is now also providing some tools and utilities for easing the integration 
+				of those drivers into a given system... ...the "Foomatic" family 
+				of utilities; being the toolset to make use of the database 
+				for most of the commonly used print subsystems, for generating "on the fly" 
+				working configurations for your printer model.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-lprlpd">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>LPR/LPD</acronym> printing</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>LPR == some people translate <emphasis>L</emphasis>ine
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting <emphasis>R</emphasis>equest, others:
+				<emphasis>L</emphasis>ine <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter
+				<emphasis>R</emphasis>emote.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-magicfilter">
+                        <glossterm>Magicfilter</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Similarly to the APSfilter program, Magicfilter
+				provides automatic file type recognition functions and, base
+				on that, automatic file conversion to a printable format,
+				depending on the target printer.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-apsfilter">APSfilter</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-mimetypes">
+                        <glossterm>&MIME;-Types</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>M</emphasis>ultipurpose (or
+				Multimedia) <emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet <emphasis>M</emphasis>ail
+				<emphasis>E</emphasis>xtensions; &MIME;-Types were first used to allow
+				the transport of binary data (like mail attachments containing
+				graphics) over mail connections that were normally only transmitting
+				ASCII characters: the data had to be encoded into an ASCII representation.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				Later this concept was extended to describe a data format in
+				a platform independent, but at the same time non-ambiguous, way.
+				From &Windows; everybody knows the .doc extensions for &Microsoft; Word files.
+				This is handled ambiguously on the &Windows; platform: .doc extensions are also
+				used for simple text files or for Adobe Framemaker files. And if a real
+				Word file is renamed with a different extension, it can no longer be
+				opened by the program.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				&MIME; typed files carry a recognition string with them, describing
+				their file format based on <emphasis>main_category/sub_category</emphasis>.
+				Inside IPP, print files are also described using the &MIME; type scheme.
+				&MIME; types are registered with the IANA (Internet Assigning Numbers
+				<emphasis>Association</emphasis>) to keep them unambiguous.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				&CUPS; has some &MIME; types of its own registered, like
+				<emphasis>application/vnd.cups-raster</emphasis> (for the &CUPS;-internal
+				raster image format).
+
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-pcl">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>PCL</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter
+				<emphasis>C</emphasis>ontrol <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage;
+				developed by &HP;. PCL started off in version 1 as a simple
+				command set for ASCII printing; now,
+				in its versions PCL6 and PCL-X, it is capable of printing graphics
+				and color -- but outside the &Microsoft; &Windows; realm and &HP-UX; 
+				(&HP;'s own brand of &UNIX;), it is not commonly used...</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">&HP;/GL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pdl">PDL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-pdl">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>PDL</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>age
+				<emphasis>D</emphasis>escription <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage;
+				PDLs describe, in an abstract way, the graphical representation
+				of a page. - Before it is actually transferred into
+				toner or ink laid down on to paper, a PDL needs to be
+				"interpreted" first. In &UNIX;, the most important PDL
+				is &PostScript;.
+				</para>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">&HP;/GL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-pixel">
+                        <glossterm>Pixel</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>Pic</emphasis>ture
+				<emphasis>El</emphasis>ement; this term describes the smallest
+				part of a raster picture (either as printed on paper
+				or as displayed on a monitor by cathode rays or LCD elements). As
+				any graphical or image representation on those types of output
+				devices is composed of pixels, the values of "ppi" (pixel per inch)
+				and &dpi; (dots per inch) are one important parameter for the
+				overall quality and resolution of an image.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-raster">Raster</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-pjl">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>PJL</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>rint
+				<emphasis>J</emphasis>ob <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage;
+				developed by &HP; to control and influence default and per-job
+				settings of a printer. It may not only be used
+				for &HP;'s own (PCL-)printers; also many &PostScript;
+				and other printers understand PJL commands sent to them
+				inside a print job, or in a separate signal.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-postscript">
+                        <glossterm>&PostScript;</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>&PostScript; (often shortened to "PS") is the de-facto
+				standard in the &UNIX; world for printing files. It was
+				developed by Adobe and licensed to printer manufacturers 
+				and software companies.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+				As the &PostScript; specifications were
+				published by Adobe, there are also "Third Party" implementations
+				of &PostScript; generating and &PostScript; interpreting software
+				available (one of the best-known in the Free software world
+				being Ghostscript, a powerful PS-interpreter).
+                                </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">&HP;/GL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ppd">PPD</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-ppd">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>PPD</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>ostScript
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter <emphasis>D</emphasis>escription;
+				PPDs are ASCII files storing all information about the special
+				capabilities of a printer, plus definitions of the (PostScript-
+				or PJL-) commands to call on a certain capability (like print
+				duplexing).
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				As the explanation of the acronym reveals, PPDs were originally
+				only used for &PostScript; printers. &CUPS; has extended the
+				PPD concept to all types of printers.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				PPDs for &PostScript; printers are provided by the printer
+				vendors. They can be used with &CUPS; and KDEPrint to have access
+				to the full features of any &PostScript; printer. The KDEPrint Team
+				recommends using a PPD originally intended for use with
+				&Microsoft; Windows NT.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				PPDs for non-PostScript printers <emphasis>need</emphasis> a
+				companion "filter" to process the &PostScript; print files into
+				a format digestible for the non-PostScript target device. Those
+				PPD/filter combos are not (yet) available from the vendors. After
+				the initiative by the &CUPS; developers to utilize PPDs, the Free
+				Software community was creative enough to quickly come up with
+				support for most of the currently used printer models, through
+				PPDs and classical Ghostscript filters. But note: the printout
+				quality varies from "hi-quality photographic output" (using
+				Gimp-Print with most Epson inkjets) to "hardly readable" (using
+				Foomatic-enabled Ghostscript filters for models rated as
+				"paperweight" in the Linuxprinting.org database).
+                                </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingorg">Linuxprinting.org</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">
+                        <glossterm>PPD-O-Matic</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>PPD-O-Matic is a set of Perl scripts that run on the Linuxprinting.org
+				web server and can be used online to generate PPDs for any printer that is known
+				to print with Ghostscript.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				These PPDs can be hooked up to &CUPS;/KDEPrint, as well as
+				used inside PPD-aware applications like StarOffice to determine all different 
+				parameters of your printjobs. It is now recommended, in most cases, to 
+				use "PPD-O-Matic" instead of the older &CUPS;-O-Matic.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				To generate a PPD, go to the <ulink
+				url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi">printer 
+				database</ulink>, select your printer model, follow
+				the link to show the available Ghostscript filters for that printer, select
+				one, click "generate" and finally save the file to your local system.
+				Be sure to read the instructions. Make sure that your local system
+				does indeed have Ghostscript and the filter, which you chose
+				before generating the PPD, installed.
+				</para>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingorg">Linuxprinting.org</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-printcap">
+                        <glossterm>printcap</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>In BSD-style print systems, the "printcap" file holds
+				the configuration information; the printing daemon reads this file
+				to determine which printers are available, what filters are to be
+				user for each, where the spooling folder is located,
+				if there are banner pages to be used, and so on...
+				Some applications also depend on read access to the printcap 
+				file, to obtain the names of available printers. </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+  
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-printermib">
+                        <glossterm>Printer-<acronym>MIB</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for
+				<emphasis>Printer</emphasis>-<emphasis>M</emphasis>anagement
+				<emphasis>I</emphasis>nformation <emphasis>B</emphasis>ase; the
+				Printer-MIB defines a set of parameters that are to be
+				stored inside the printer for access
+				through the network. This is useful if many (in some cases, literally 
+				thousands) network printers are managed centrally
+				with the help of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-snmp">SNMP</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+  
+                <glossentry id="gloss-pwg">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>PWG</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter <emphasis>W</emphasis>orking
+				<emphasis>G</emphasis>roup; the PWG is a loose grouping of
+				representatives of the printer industry that has, in the past
+				years, developed different standards
+				in relation to network printing. These were later accepted by the
+				IETF as RFC standards, like the "Printer-MIB" and the IPP.</para>
+				<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printermib">Printer-MIB</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-snmp">SNMP</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-printkioslave">
+                        <glossterm>print:/ KIO Slave</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>You can use a syntax of "print:/..." to get quick access
+				to KDEPrint resources. Typing "print:/manager" as a Konqueror URL
+				address gives administrative access to KDEPrint. Konqueror uses &kde;'s
+				famous "KParts" technology to achieve that. </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave">IO Slave</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-printerdatabase">
+                        <glossterm>Printer Database</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">Linuxprinting Database</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-qtcups">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>Qt&CUPS;</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Qt&CUPS; and KUPS were the predecessors of KDEPrint; they are now 
+				deprecated and no longer maintained. What was good in qtcups is all inherited
+				by "kprinter", the new KDE print dialog (which is much improved over qtcups);
+				what you liked about kups is now all in the KDEPrint Manager (accessible 
+				via the KDE Control Center or via the URL "print:/manager" from Konqueror) --
+				with more functionality and less bugs... Its former developer, Michael Goffioul, is now
+				the developer of KDEPrint -- a very nice and productive guy and quick bug fixer...
+				 </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-raster">
+                        <glossterm>Raster Image</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Every picture on a physical medium
+				is composed of a pattern of discrete dots in different colors and (maybe)
+				sizes. This is called a "raster image".
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				This is as opposed to a "vector image"
+				where the graphic is described in terms of continuous curves, shades,
+				forms and filled areas, represented by mathematical formula. Vector images
+				normally have a smaller file size and may be scaled in size 
+				without any loss of information and quality --- but they cannot be
+				output directly, but always have to be "rendered" or "rasterized"
+				first to the given resolution that the output device is capable of...
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+
+				The rasterization is done by a Raster Image Processor (RIP,
+				often the Ghostscript software) or some other filtering
+				instance.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pixel">Pixel</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-rip">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>RIP</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for
+				<emphasis>R</emphasis>aster <emphasis>I</emphasis>mage
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rocess(or); if used in the context of
+				printing, "RIP" means a hardware or software
+				instance that converts &PostScript; (or other print formats
+				that are represented in one of the non-Raster PDLs) into a
+				raster image format in such a way that it is acceptable
+				for the "marking engine" of the printer.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				&PostScript; printers
+				contain their own PostScript-RIPs. A RIP may or may not be located 
+				inside a printer.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				For many &UNIX; systems, Ghostscript is the package that provides
+				a "RIP in software", running on the host computer, and pre-digesting
+				the &PostScript; or other data to become ready to be sent to the
+				printing device (hence you may perceive a "grain of truth" in the
+				slogan "Ghostscript turns your printer into a &PostScript;
+				machine", which of course is not correct in the true sense of the
+				meaning).</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pdl">PDL</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-raster">Raster</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-rlpr">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>RLPR</acronym> (Remote LPR)</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>R</emphasis>emote
+				<emphasis>L</emphasis>ine <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting
+				<emphasis>R</emphasis>equest; this is a BSD-style printing system,
+				that needs no root privileges to be installed, and no "printcap" to
+				work: all parameters may be specified on the command
+				line.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				RLPR comes in handy for many laptop users who are
+				working in frequently changing environments. This is because it
+				may be installed concurrently with every other printing
+				sub system, and allows a very flexible and quick
+				way to install a printer for direct access via LPR/LPD.
+<!--
+				</para>
+				<para>
+-->
+
+				KDEPrint
+				has an "Add Printer Wizard" to make RLPR usage even easier.
+				The kprinter command allows switching to RLPR "on
+				the fly" at any time.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprint">KDEPrint</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printcap">printcap</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+ 
+                <glossentry id="gloss-snmp">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>SNMP</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>S</emphasis>imple
+				<emphasis>N</emphasis>etwork <emphasis>M</emphasis>anagement
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rotocol; SNMP is widely used to control
+				all types of network node (Hosts, Routers, Switches, Gateways,
+				Printers...) remotely.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printermib">Printer-MIB</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+	        <glossentry id="gloss-ssl">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>SSL(3)</acronym> encryption</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>S</emphasis>ecure
+				<emphasis>S</emphasis>ocket <emphasis>L</emphasis>ayer;
+				<acronym>SSL</acronym> is a proprietary encryption method for data
+				transfer over HTTP that was developed by Netscape. It is now being 
+				replaced by an IETF standard named TLS.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tls"><acronym>TLS</acronym></glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+	        <glossentry id="gloss-spooling">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>SPOOL</acronym>ing</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>S</emphasis>ynchronous
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>eripheral <emphasis>O</emphasis>perations
+				<emphasis>O</emphasis>n<emphasis>L</emphasis>ine;
+				<acronym>SPOOL</acronym>ing enables printing applications
+				(and users) to continue their work
+                                as the job is being taken care of by a system <acronym>daemon</acronym>,
+				which stores the file at a temporary location until the printer is ready
+				to print. </para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-daemon"><acronym>Daemon</acronym></glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+	        <glossentry id="gloss-tls">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>TLS</acronym> encryption</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>T</emphasis>ransport
+				<emphasis>L</emphasis>ayer <emphasis>S</emphasis>ecurity;
+				<acronym>TLS</acronym> is an encryption standard for
+				data transfered over HTTP 1.1; it is defined in RFC 2246;
+				although based on the former SSL development
+				(from Netscape) it is not fully compatible with it.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ssl"><acronym>SSL(3)</acronym></glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+
+	        <glossentry id="gloss-systemVstyleprinting">
+                        <glossterm>System V-style printing</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>This is the second flavor of traditional &UNIX;
+				printing (as opposed to BSD-style printing). It uses
+				a different command set (lp, lpadmin,...) to BSD,
+				but is not fundamentally different from it. However, the 
+				gap between the two is big enough to make the two
+				incompatible, so that a BSD-client cannot simply print
+				to a System V style print server without additional
+				tweaking... IPP is supposed to resolve this weakness
+				and more.
+				</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting"><acronym>BSD-style printing</acronym></glossseealso>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp"><acronym>IPP</acronym></glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-turboprint">
+                        <glossterm>TurboPrint</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Shareware software providing photo quality printing for many
+				inkjet printers. It is useful if you are unable to find a driver for your
+				printer and may be hooked into either a traditional Ghostscript system
+				or a modern &CUPS; system.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-xpp">
+                        <glossterm><acronym>XPP</acronym></glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>X</emphasis>
+				<emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting <emphasis>P</emphasis>anel;
+				<acronym>XPP</acronym> was the first Free
+				graphical print command for &CUPS;, written by Till Kamppeter,
+				and in some ways a model for the "kprinter" utility in &kde;.</para>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+<!--
+                <glossentry id="gloss-1">
+                        <glossterm>xxxx</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-1">xyz</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-3">
+                        <glossterm>xxxx</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-1">xyz</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+
+                <glossentry id="gloss-4">
+                        <glossterm>xxxx</glossterm>
+                        <glossdef><para>.</para>
+                                <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-1">xyz</glossseealso>
+                        </glossdef>
+                </glossentry>
+-->
+	</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!--
+</glossary>
+-->