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Re: Printing packaging rework 2020



Le vendredi, 31 janvier 2020, 14.03:46 h CET Brian Potkin a écrit :
> I would say 100% of popular network printers available for users to
> purchase in at least the past five years have AirPrint. For our
> purposes this is the defining aspect of driverless. A number of devices
> is USB only.

Isn't ippusbxd meant to help solving this?

> > But the Debian packaging (task-print-server, cups, …) still installs _a
> > lot_ of printer drivers and other related packages. Although in the past
> > I was convinced we needed to make sure that _all_ printer drivers should
> > be installed everywhere (hence the creation and usage of the
> > printer-driver-all meta-package), I'm getting more and more convinced
> > that we should reverse this course and install "just" what's needed to
> > print driverless to a network printer in "most" cases.
> 
> This looks like a viable plan, but it would be good to have some printer
> applications to go along with testing and see how this would work out.

Good point, indeed.

Cheers,
    OdyX

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