On Sat 04 May 2019 at 14:14:38 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Fri 03 May 2019 at 22:01:23 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > > > 5) in whats-new.dbk there isn't much exiting for buster. Don't we have > > nice new things? > > Developments in CUPs and cups-filters bring easy and trouble-free setup > for modern IPP printers. Non-free printer drivers and plugins bite the > dust! > > https://wiki.debian.org/QuickPrintQueuesCUPS
Text for the Release Notes, if it helps: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian 10.x.x provides CUPS 2.2.10 and cups-filters 1.21.6. Both give a user everything that is needed to take advantage of driverless printing (https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting). The principal requirement is that a network print queue or printer offers an AirPrint service. A modern IPP printer is highly likely to be AirPrint-capable; a Debian CUPS print queue is always AirPrint-enabled. In essence, the DNS-SD (Bonjour) broadcasts done by a CUPS server advertising a queue, or those from IPP printers, are capable of being displayed in the print dialogs of applications without any action being required on the part of a user. An additional benefit is that the use of non-free vendor printing drivers and plugins can be dispensed with. A default installation of the cups package also installs the package cups-browsed; print queues and IPP printers will now be automatically set up and managed by this utility. This is the recommended way (https://wiki.debian.org/QuickPrintQueuesCUPS) for a user to experience seamless and trouble-free driverless printing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: cups-browsed isn't actually needed; CUPS should be sufficient. But bugs in GTK and Qt applications foul things up. Hence the recommendation. -- Brian. --
