On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Brian Potkin wrote:
>
> Can we just forget about the bug you reported for a while and, to begin
> with, get you printing satisfactorily?
But than you forget about the scanning, don't you, which is the major
part of the problem.
> Why tie yourself into the tyranny of vendor supplied drivers? Get your
> cups back to 2.2.8-5
But that's what it is at. Both testing _and_ unstable:
$ apt-cache policy cups
cups:
Installed: 2.2.8-5
Candidate: 2.2.8-5
Version table:
2.3~b5-2 59
59 http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64
Packages
2.2.8-5 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
99 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
> and purge hplip and everything it pulled in. Have
> the printer on the network and doing DNS-SD (Bonjour) broadcasting.
> Purge cups-browsed. Now do
>
> lpstat -e
>
> What do you get?
$ lpstat -e
HP-ColorLaserJet-MFP-M278-M281
already gives me that (with the tyranny of vendor supplied drivers,
duplex too) and cups-browsed is already purged and avahi-daemon is not
installed.
AFAICT, m281fdw should be supported since some time (before 3.18.10),
but came out with new bug(s) that make it unusable :( Is there a way
to find out narrow down the details? Other distributions find
appropriate to identify, patch and feed back on bugs. Is debian doing
that too?
Cheers,
--
Cristian
