Another screencast from Jon Udell, accompanying an article where he follows up on Eric Raymond’s diatribe against the unusability of printing in Linux. Udell points out that it ain’t much better on Mac OS X:

This is something I’ve been telling my clients for years — it’s probably the worst interface feature on OS X. For one thing, the Gimp-Print drivers weren’t always part of the standard installation, and I can’t imagine that anyone would guess that something with that name would be useful. For another, there was an interregnum period where most printers didn’t have OS X drivers, which is thankfully over but which still might affect people who own printers made during the OS 9 era. Or anyone buying a printer that doesn’t ship with Mac drivers at all.

Such as my Epson Stylus Scan 2000. The Gimp-Print driver makes the thing run better, and with more features, than it ever did with its OS 9 Epson drivers. But anyone who didn’t know to experiment with Gimp-Print would have thrown the thing into the scrap heap.

Addendum, April 20, 2005 12:24 AM: Looks like this might get better in nine days.