anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>>The thing is, X wants to move stuff to your workstation, not nearby
>>workstations.
>
> Well, often your workstation knows how to print on the printer you
> want to print on, even if that printer is connected to a different
> machine.
>
> Ok, that's not true of my X-terminal at the office, but if there was
> printing through X, it would know how to print.
>
>>Your example of being able to print at home is one that resonates with
>>me -- except that I've got two desktops and two laptops at home, and
>>only one of the four has a printer.
>
> But I guess all four can use that printer, right?

Yes -- my point exactly. While working on a school machine from home,
I don't necessarily want to print from the machine I'm working from.

As you say above in the post I'm responding to, the machine I'm on
knows how to print to other machines on my network -- but this seems
like an argument for tunnelling IPP over ssh, not printing from X.