Re: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012
On Wed 11 Aug 2021 at 14:15:49 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 11/08/2021 à 12:36, Brian a écrit :
> > On Wed 11 Aug 2021 at 08:19:37 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:54:23 +0100
> > > Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Brian,
> > >
> > > > As I've said previously, a future CUPS will not support printer drivers.
> > > > HPLIP provides printer drivers. There will be little point in Debian
> > > > packaging HPLIP, wouldn't you agree? But this is a few years away.
> > >
> > > When, eventually, all HP printers run driverless _and_ no no-driverless
> > > printer exist 'in the wild', yes. Until then, I'd expect HPLIP to
> > > remain. Debian is, after all, about choice.
> >
> > The condition you lay down in the first sentence is not a factor in
> > determining whether Debian packages HPLIP. HPLIP uses PPDs and drivers;
> > a future CUPS will not work with PPDs and drivers. The choice will be
> > to have a working printing system using driverless or a non-working
> > printing system.
> >
>
> Or to have a non working printing solution because the new one does not
> cover the full range pof printing setups. Autodiscovery is good when
> possible, but removing any possibility not to use it is a fault, when
> autodiscovery does not work. I hope before cups is made unable to use PPD,
> the driverless system is made able to be given remote printers adresses and
> capabilities (also thinking to old printers which do not advertise
> capabilities the way you want).
Regarding autodiscovery not being a suitable technique: perhaps the
final item on page 22 at
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/presentations/cups-plenary-may-2021.pdf
will help.
The point of "profiles" is to provide a simple way for enterprises to
configure/deploy IPP Everywhere queues (pointed at real printers, a
central CUPS server, etc.) when mDNS/DNS-SD isn't feasible.
--
Brian
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