Printing

This page details work on Printing in KDE.

Current information

KDE4 uses the Qt printing infrastructure for the application side and system-config-printer for the Print System Configuration.

• Qt Printing

Development Plans

The primary plan is to use Qt OpenGov to push our required features into Qt5. This may require an interim fork for KDE4 as it may take up to 2 years for KDE5 to emerge with the new printing features enabled.

• [[Printing/Missing_Features|Features missing from Qt Printing and how to get them back]
• Printer Management
• Print Job Management
• Gitorious repo of Advanced Page Handling patches
• The OpenPrinting Common Print Dialog

CUPS Information

The old printing.kde.org website had some useful general information on CUPS which are reproduced below. This may eventually be transferred to TechBase or UserBase if deemed useful.

• Old CUPS FAQ
• Old CUPS Access Control
• Old CUPS Quotas

Historic Information

Old information about KDEPrint3 transferred from TechBase and printing.kde.org.

• Porting to KDE4
• Useful tools and utilities for developers
• Postscript Fonts and Ghostscript
• Checking your font configuration
• Font notes
• Comparing PDF's
• Proposals for KDE4 API