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pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

Posts: 256  

Driverless printing

Back in late 2023, when I was setting up the Brother laser printer that I bought back in 2016, I was surprised and delighted to learn that I wouldn't have to follow some tedious driver installation procedure (like I had done previously) because the printer is AirPrint compatible.

To learn more, see:

CUPSDriverlessPrinting
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting

Driverless printing
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing

See also:

CUPSQuickPrintQueues
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues

Troubleshooting tip:

The CUPS graphical interface might confusingly show multiple IPP Everywhere entries. The trademarked one should work.

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kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 474  

Re: Driverless printing

found that this has downsides and upsides;
have one ricoh printer with ethernet (geljet) that previously was not easily available outside of windows/server/macos and now is;

as downside,
my epson printer was ethernet/wifi/usb connectivity, and even when installing the proper epson driver, would not show the driver available in cups; unless i would de-install the package "ipp-usb" and then magically the usb-driver would show up in cups;
it might not be big issue for most, but with original driver, the command over usb get sent like more instant, whereas over ipp-usb there is bit of delay.