On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:17:12AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive > > address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain > > text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer is > > managed by CUPS to receive "raw" data. I print labels using the "lpr" > > command. > > And the year is 1998 :D Yeah. Today you would use a client-server architecture, the server being an npm application running in a Docker container. The client is based on libelectron (the printer selection dialog has to have a GUI, after all). Since the stack of dependencies is so, well, hellish, you better deploy your print-capable apps as Flatpaks [0], each one with its own copy of libelectron (and of Chrome, of course). Makes you pine for the good ol' times where those things were made with Eclipse [1]. Nah. I'll take lprng, thankyouverymuch. Cheers [0] Or however your application isolation framework is called in the circle of hell you currently inhabit. [1] And I thought Eclipse had its name because lights went dim when it was started. Naive me. - t
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