[dot] Ricoh Supports KDE Printing Development

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1130188084/

From: Inorog <tibirna at kde.org>
Dept: christmas-in-october
Date: Monday 24/Oct/2005, @16:08

Ricoh Supports KDE Printing Development
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   Printer manufacturer Ricoh USA [http://www.ricoh-usa.com], listening
to the energetic advocating of their Linux engineer, has decided to
provide Cristian Tibirna of the KDE printing development team
[http://printing.kde.org] with a professional RICOH CL4000DN colour
laser printer
[http://www.ricoh-usa.com/products/product_features.asp?pCategoryId=25&pSubCategoryId=21&pProductId=262&pCatName=Printers&pSubCatName=Color+%2F+Black+%26+White&pProductName=CL4000DN&tsn=Ricoh-USA].
 Thanks to this support the KDE printing development team will be able
to do better tests of the new features in CUPS [http://www.cups.org] 1.2
and extend the degree of support in KDE Print for professional printing
features which currently lack support by Free Software.

     Ricoh's Linux engineer and driver developer George Liu said "What
we want to do is support Linux printing, and KDE Print is the most
successful printing environment."  George has also initiated and
advocated the contribution of a number of PPD drivers to
LinuxPrinting.org.
 [http://www.linuxprinting.org]
     It is a duty of honour to underline that the vast majority of the
KDE Print  work was done by Michael Goffioul
[http://people.kde.org/michaelg.html], the creator of the full suite of
KDE Print  technologies. Michael passed maintainership to me a few
months ago, yet he is  still actively helping with my understanding of
the code and with debugging. Our unreserved thanks go to George and
Ricoh for their generosity. Many thanks to Michael for the tremendous
work he did in past years.