Signaling printer status from a filter

[Michael Sweet]

Josh Mathis wrote:
> Ok, that helps. Now the million-dollar question - for new development, 
> would it make sense to use simple backchannel read/write in the main 
> rendering filter (rastertoxxx), or would it be more forward-thinking to 
> move all status stuff into the port monitor right now, anticipating a 
> periodic update module for status monitoring?

That's really your call - if the logic can be easily separated (i.e.
no need to query the printer for capabilities from your driver), or
if you need to do things differently for different types of
connections, I'd go the port monitor route.

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