I have a Deskjet 2130 that I paid pennies for, and it works on my Ubuntu, works on a RedHat Enterprise Linux, works on the chromebooks... It's my first printer in a loooong time, because now I have kids in the school and a printer is essential, but I usually never had issues with CUPS.
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. Em seg., 1 de jun. de 2020 às 11:15, Christopher Browne via talk < [email protected]> escreveu: > On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 09:26, Peter King via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sad days when people who voluntarily use Linux and are tech-savvy just >> give up on printing -- printing! -- because it isn't worth the effort. >> There shouldn't *be* any effort by now; it's 2020, for goodness sakes. >> > > I guess I'm surprised a bit by this; my experiences have some parallels > and non-parallels... > > Once upon a time, I did really scary printer hacking, had a project where > I built a component that would put bitmaps of peoples' signatures into > documents in a print queue so that printed reports would have the > Lovely Signatures. There was a step weirder; one of the print queues > went to a fax machine, as the task was sending price sheets out to > customers (with the Lovely Signature at the bottom). That was, like > circa 1992. > > At that time, interoperability with printers and Linux was very much > fraught with troubles. Those were the days of WinModems and > WinPrinters where Microsoft was trying to capture market by > making sure that lots of devices would ONLY talk to Windows(tm) > > Then, some time in the 20-oughts, (after 2000), I encountered CUPS > and had the "breath of fresh air" of it being pretty much dead easy to > configure printer usage on Linux. Each time I have gotten a new PC > at work has been a point in time where I configured CUPS to talk to > a couple of our printers. > > And my reaction, of late, has been, "It Just Works(tm)" After the > old scar tissue from the '90s, it has been just totally easy. I kinda > suspect I have had things Dialed To Easy, in view that what I'm > inevitably connecting to are networked printers that were to a degree > selected to be simple for our varied platform staff (a few Windows, > quite a lot of MacOS, and quite a lot of Linux) to connect to, so > that I'm not treading any ground that's new to anyone local. > > But I had gotten myself accustomed to the impression that > "with CUPS, It Just Works(tm)", so colour me surprised. > > Has Microsoft pushed back to try to get WinPrinters back to be a > thing? I'm curious as to what may have worsened in the last few > years. > -- > When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the > question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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