Bug#966701: Driverless printing in buster via ipp-usb
I would like the following version to replace previous offering:
USB connected printers and driverless printing
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The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describe the driverless printing
situation implemented via CUPS and cups-filters. [1] The changes apply to
modern printers connected by ethernet or wireless. [2]
The release of Debian 11 sees the inclusion of ipp-usb in the stable
archive. ipp-usb is recommended by cups-daemon and utilises the
vendor-neutral IPP-over-USB protocol that is supported by many modern
printers. ipp-usb allows a USB device to be seen and treated as a network
device. The outcome is that driverless printing is extended to include USB
connected printers. The specifics are outlined on the wiki. [3]
The systemd service file included in the ipp-usb package starts the
ipp-usb daemon when a printer is plugged in. A USB connected printer now
becomes available to print to, either by being auto-setup by cups-browsed,
which is the default technique, or being manually installed [4] with a
local driverless print queue.
The use of vendor printer drivers, free and non-free, becomes unnecessary
with networked and USB connected printers.
[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting.
[4] https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting
Cheers,
Brian.
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