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-<chapter id="final-word-from-author">
-<title>Final word from the Author</title>
-
-<sect1 id="who-am-i">
-<title>Who am I, what is my business? </title>
-
-<para>
-My employer is Danka Deutschland GmbH, a leading and
-manufacturer-independent provider of professional and hi-speed digital
-printing systems, black-and-white as well as color. Danka provides
-hardware, software, service, maintenance, consumables and customized
-solutions for the products in its portfolio. I work there as a
-System Engineer. Amongst the brands Danka offers are Heidelberg
-(formerly Kodak), Canon, &Hewlett-Packard;, Hitachi, Infotec and
-EfI.</para>
-
-<para>
-My acquaintance with &Linux; and the Free Software community is not
-too old. When I started to play around with &Linux; at the beginning
-of 1999, my deepest disappointment was the poor support for
-printing. True, I made all our machines spit out simplex prints -- but
-what about duplex? What about punching the output? How to make sorting
-work? Or stapling, cover sheets and all the other beautiful finishing
-options our engines offer to customers? No way -- at least for me as a
-non-geek!</para>
-
-<para>
-I began a search on the Internet for a solution. Fortunately not
-much later, in May 1999, Mike Sweet, principal developer of &CUPS;,
-announced the first Beta release of this superb piece of printing
-software. After trying it briefly, I knew this was it!</para>
-
-<para>
-Next thing I attempted: to make &Linux; distributions interested in
-this new stuff. Believe me -- it was more than tenacious! They seemed
-to think they already had the best thing they could get in
-printing. One reason probably was that they (and many &Linux;
-developers) never had to think about how to best support a printer
-duplexer -- because one had never come near their own
-desks...</para>
-
-<para>
-Finally, my attempts to make some &Linux; print publications
-interested in &CUPS; <quote>backfired</quote> on me - one editor
-squeezed me into writing a series on the subject myself. And this is
-how some people started to give me the nickname <quote>CUPS
-Evangelist</quote>. I will not get rid of this nick anytime soon, now
-that even the &kde; people wedged me into their timeframe of
-releases. Oh, boy...</para>
-
-<para>Anyway, &CUPS; is now making its way around the world and it
-might well become a triumphal one: I am a little bit proud to have
-supported and contributed to this from near the beginning.</para>
-
-<para>It should encourage you: even if some more experienced &Linux;
-users than you are skeptical about it, and even if your programming
-skills are next to zero (like mine) - there are a lot of tasks and
-jobs and ideas, and talent that you can contribute to the Free Software
-community. Not least within the &kde; project... ;-)
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="credits">
-<title>Credits</title>
-
-<para>I'd like to thank...</para>
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Mike Sweet for developing &CUPS; in the first place</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>Jean-Eric Cuendet for starting <application>kups</application>
-and <application>qtcups</application>, the predecessors of
-&tdeprint;</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>Michael Goffioul for doing all the hard work recently</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>Martin Konold for thinking twice</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>Sven Guckes for teaching me a few things about the art of <quote>survival
-on the terminal</quote> (just in case &kde; is not there ;-) )</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>...too numerous others to mention who also let me snatch bits
-and bytes of knowledge
-off them</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para> and last, but not least: Tom Schwaller for encouraging me
-to get into <quote>documentation
-writing</quote></para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="caveats">
-<title>Caveats</title>
-
-<para>&tdeprint; has been developed on a system using &CUPS; 1.1.6.
-&tdeprint; has been tested on other versions of &CUPS; and so
-far no incompatibilities are known. By the time of writing
-this Handbook, &CUPS; 1.1.9 is out with a few new features
-not yet supported by &tdeprint;. Of course you are able to
-access these features, but you will need to bypass &tdeprint;
-and use the &CUPS; command-line tools or edit configuration
-files manually. &tdeprint;'s development will go on and this
-Handbook strives to always be the best available user documentation
-resource for it.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>