On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:20:25PM +0200, ropers wrote:
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> went on behind the scenes. I am trying to catch up on that, though I'm
> finding that comprehensive, thorough, and up-to-date documentation on
> the whole Unix printing landscape seems to be somewhat hard to find.

There is a chapter on printing in the UNIX Power Tools book:
 http://www.openbsd.org/books.html#3

Personally, I wish something simple like pdq
 http://pdq.sourceforge.net
would become the new standard for UNIX printing.  Unfortunately, the pdq
project has been dead for years.  :(