Modern HP printers are very easy to handle. They sit on the network and Linux can find them automatically. HP provides excellent LInux support for their printers.
CUPS isn't fun but it's not rocket science; once you get it going it's generally set and forget. My 2 cents, Arnold Charles Forsyth <[email protected]> wrote: > the downside is that you'd need to deal with CUPS! > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 12:42 PM Richard Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You may be better off > > > sacrificing one of your old RPI boards to Linux and using that as your > > > common printer interface to the large set of supported printer devices > > > > Sounds practical. Years ago I used a Mac for a CUPS server, until a > > MacOS opgrade suddenly made it stop working with lp(1), and I was too > > lazy to debug it. Maybe time to try again with raspbian. > > > > > >
