I have never, in the entire history of my usage of desktop systems, wanted my system to spool out a print job on behalf of a non-current user. Nor have I wanted

I have never, in the entire history of my usage of desktop systems, wanted my system to spool out a print job on behalf of a non-current user. Nor have I wanted my system to continue servicing my print queue after I log out. To the contrary: it’s incredibly annoying when the queue glitches out and then my print jobs show up in the printer tray after I’ve left. On multi-user systems (accessed simultaneously by multiple interactive accounts), sure, I’ve once worked in a lab where multiplexing a printer would make sense. Make this a non-default option, please. And have a printer multiplexing daemon, not an entire shared monstrosity like CUPS. On terminal-server style systems, the print system should be per user, because the printers are per user. I don’t want to print to a printer wherever the terminal server lives — I want to print to the printer near me. I once ran an actual print server for a couple years. It did accounting, correctly, by wiring CUPS to a little program I wrote that actually spoke PJL correctly. CUPS, of course, can’t actually do this.