On Tue 16 May 2023 at 11:24:05 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/16/23 10:35, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 16 May 2023 at 09:58:45 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 5/16/23 08:29, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > But yes, this is going nowhere - and there is no lsb package in Debian, > > > > I think. > > > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > . > > > Couple that with my recent discovery that debian seems to be shipping the > > > cups from apple, last updated by its author in 2019. > > > > Did your investigations involve reading a changelog? > > whazzat? Trolling thru /usr/share/ looking for those is a pita. And far more > often, a waste of time, not containing a useful amount of data.
Mmm. That's a novel way to dispose of the usefulness of changelogs and not have to acknowledge what appears to be disinformation. > > > Given that clue, I would be surprised to find a "cups" driver in the > > > debian > > > repo's capable of driving a newer epson product. > > > > Please give yourself a treat and use 'lpinfo -m' :). > > > Thanks, I just did and it appears to show both brothers installed drivers > and the driverless, but driverless is not complete for either printer, where > the makers ppd is. for the laser, toner would last forever, very thin, > faint, had to read output, the mfcj6920dw only uses top tray, which is $8 > for 50 sheets glossy photo paper. Tray 2, the bottom one has up to 350 pages > of duplex copy paper, the obvious choice, but the driverless driver doesn't > use it. You made a comment on Epson products and Debian. I was rather hoping you would address that rather than bringing up your concern with a possibly buggy printer from another vendor. -- Brian.
