Bug#966701: Driverless printing in buster via ipp-usb
Brian Potkin wrote:
>> USB connected printers and driverless printing
>> ----------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>
> Thinking on:
>
> The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describe...
>
> should probably be
>
> The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describes...
Plural "notes", so I'd say that they "describe" the situation (and my
native en_GB tends if anything to be more tolerant than en_US of
mismatches). But it might be worth shifting things round so that the
sentence has a different subject, since this would let it introduce
topics in a more natural order:
Modern printers connected by ethernet or wireless [1] can use driverless
printing, implemented via CUPS and cups-filters, as described in the
Debian 10 "buster" Release Notes. [2]
[...]
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues
[2] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing
Oh, watch out, that /stable/ URL will point at the wrong thing soon!
We need
[2] https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing
> Having [3] as
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#debian
>
> might be considered more targeted.
Calling that anchor "#debian" implies that the rest of the page is
about something other than Debian; and using the release name as a
section title will make things harder to follow once we're moving
towards Debian 12 "bookworm"! Couldn't the section be titled
something like "IPP-over-USB: automatic setup"?
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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