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Yes, I've heard that, but it isn't nearly the same thing. It requires some fairly expensive network infrastructure (Windows 2003 Server isn't cheap), it only works with Windows clients, and it only works on a centrally administered network which has been set up with this in mind.

Maybe that seems like it's good enough if you mostly work in large Windows-heavy enterprise environments. But it's not that uncommon for me to find myself needing to print to some random PostScript printer on an ad-hoc home or small business network, where there's no print server or centralized network resource directory. Of course, I can do it; Bonjour finds the printer for me, and I can print with generic drivers, but it would be a little nicer if the printer could make the PPD available.

This quote appears to have very little to do with what we're discussing.

-- "Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." -- George W. Bush in Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005