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Do not think that legacy drivers will cease to work and you have to buy a new one, This is Microsoft's way to go all-IPP with Windows Protected Print.
Our way at OpenPrinting af going all-IPP and doing away with classic printer drivers (PPD files + filters) is that for legacy printers we introduce Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers. So no worries about this warning ...
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Do not think that legacy drivers will cease to work and you have to buy a new one, This is Microsoft's way to go all-IPP with Windows Protected Print.
Our way at OpenPrinting af going all-IPP and doing away with classic printer drivers (PPD files + filters) is that for legacy printers we introduce Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers. So no worries about this warning ...
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Do not think that legacy drivers will cease to work and you have to buy a new one, This is Microsoft's way to go all-IPP with Windows Protected Print.
Our way at OpenPrinting af going all-IPP and doing away with classic printer drivers (PPD files + filters) is that for legacy printers we introduce Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers. So no worries about this warning ...
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Do not think that legacy drivers will cease to work and you have to buy a new one, This is Microsoft's way to go all-IPP with Windows Protected Print.
Our way at OpenPrinting af going all-IPP and doing away with classic printer drivers (PPD files + filters) is that for legacy printers we introduce Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers. So no worries about this warning ...
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Do not think that legacy drivers will cease to work and you have to buy a new one, This is Microsoft's way to go all-IPP with Windows Protected Print.
Our way at OpenPrinting af going all-IPP and doing away with classic printer drivers (PPD files + filters) is that for legacy printers we introduce Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers. So no worries about this warning ...
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@agowa338 I do not know the scripting which NixOS uses to apply the printer entries in your configuration file.
It can be that perhaps the PPDs are not in the right directory, or compressed PPDs are not supported.
OR
"model" requires a printer model URI, not PPD name, so run
lpinfo -m
and search the output for your printer, then use the first word (string up to the first space) of the line as value for "model".
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@agowa338 I do not know the scripting which NixOS uses to apply the printer entries in your configuration file.
It can be that perhaps the PPDs are not in the right directory, or compressed PPDs are not supported.
OR
"model" requires a printer model URI, not PPD name, so run
lpinfo -m
and search the output for your printer, then use the first word (string up to the first space) of the line as value for "model".
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@agowa338 I do not know the scripting which NixOS uses to apply the printer entries in your configuration file.
It can be that perhaps the PPDs are not in the right directory, or compressed PPDs are not supported.
OR
"model" requires a printer model URI, not PPD name, so run
lpinfo -m
and search the output for your printer, then use the first word (string up to the first space) of the line as value for "model".
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@agowa338 I do not know the scripting which NixOS uses to apply the printer entries in your configuration file.
It can be that perhaps the PPDs are not in the right directory, or compressed PPDs are not supported.
OR
"model" requires a printer model URI, not PPD name, so run
lpinfo -m
and search the output for your printer, then use the first word (string up to the first space) of the line as value for "model".
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@agowa338 I do not know the scripting which NixOS uses to apply the printer entries in your configuration file.
It can be that perhaps the PPDs are not in the right directory, or compressed PPDs are not supported.
OR
"model" requires a printer model URI, not PPD name, so run
lpinfo -m
and search the output for your printer, then use the first word (string up to the first space) of the line as value for "model".
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@Jill_linuxgirl And have a look (listen?) at the Community Feedback. Patrick has praised my participation 2 weeks ago, in ep. #477, about the cruelties of printer manufacturer's greed, and he has the right printers: Epson EcoTank and Brother laser (actually LED), no cartridge-based inkjets ...
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@Jill_linuxgirl And have a look (listen?) at the Community Feedback. Patrick has praised my participation 2 weeks ago, in ep. #477, about the cruelties of printer manufacturer's greed, and he has the right printers: Epson EcoTank and Brother laser (actually LED), no cartridge-based inkjets ...
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@Jill_linuxgirl And have a look (listen?) at the Community Feedback. Patrick has praised my participation 2 weeks ago, in ep. #477, about the cruelties of printer manufacturer's greed, and he has the right printers: Epson EcoTank and Brother laser (actually LED), no cartridge-based inkjets ...
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@Jill_linuxgirl And have a look (listen?) at the Community Feedback. Patrick has praised my participation 2 weeks ago, in ep. #477, about the cruelties of printer manufacturer's greed, and he has the right printers: Epson EcoTank and Brother laser (actually LED), no cartridge-based inkjets ...
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@Jill_linuxgirl And have a look (listen?) at the Community Feedback. Patrick has praised my participation 2 weeks ago, in ep. #477, about the cruelties of printer manufacturer's greed, and he has the right printers: Epson EcoTank and Brother laser (actually LED), no cartridge-based inkjets ...
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RE: https://mast.linuxgamecast.com/@Jill_linuxgirl/117032791344583501
You all want to hear somebody rambling about the most hated type of hardware? Planned obsolescence? Pseudo purchase or hidden rental? Big companies investing in you and then complaining that they did a bad investment? And ways you can help yourself out of it right now and even better (hopefully) in the future?
Then your destination is here, in the brand-new episode 477:
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RE: https://mast.linuxgamecast.com/@Jill_linuxgirl/117032791344583501
You all want to hear somebody rambling about the most hated type of hardware? Planned obsolescence? Pseudo purchase or hidden rental? Big companies investing in you and then complaining that they did a bad investment? And ways you can help yourself out of it right now and even better (hopefully) in the future?
Then your destination is here, in the brand-new episode 477:
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RE: https://mast.linuxgamecast.com/@Jill_linuxgirl/117032791344583501
You all want to hear somebody rambling about the most hated type of hardware? Planned obsolescence? Pseudo purchase or hidden rental? Big companies investing in you and then complaining that they did a bad investment? And ways you can help yourself out of it right now and even better (hopefully) in the future?
Then your destination is here, in the brand-new episode 477:
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RE: https://mast.linuxgamecast.com/@Jill_linuxgirl/117032791344583501
You all want to hear somebody rambling about the most hated type of hardware? Planned obsolescence? Pseudo purchase or hidden rental? Big companies investing in you and then complaining that they did a bad investment? And ways you can help yourself out of it right now and even better (hopefully) in the future?
Then your destination is here, in the brand-new episode 477:
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RE: https://mast.linuxgamecast.com/@Jill_linuxgirl/117032791344583501
You all want to hear somebody rambling about the most hated type of hardware? Planned obsolescence? Pseudo purchase or hidden rental? Big companies investing in you and then complaining that they did a bad investment? And ways you can help yourself out of it right now and even better (hopefully) in the future?
Then your destination is here, in the brand-new episode 477:
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The 2026 cohort of #OpenPrinting GSoC contributors is doing great!
We got a new, more modern web site, System76's COSMIC desktop environment is getting printing support, both printer setup tool and print dialog, KDE Print Manager is made rady for the CUPS 3.x future, we get CI testing all around, more fuzz testing, a multi-function printer simulator for testing, development, and debugging, a C++-free PDF interpreter based on PDFio with permissive license, and more ...
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The 2026 cohort of #OpenPrinting GSoC contributors is doing great!
We got a new, more modern web site, System76's COSMIC desktop environment is getting printing support, both printer setup tool and print dialog, KDE Print Manager is made rady for the CUPS 3.x future, we get CI testing all around, more fuzz testing, a multi-function printer simulator for testing, development, and debugging, a C++-free PDF interpreter based on PDFio with permissive license, and more ...
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The 2026 cohort of #OpenPrinting GSoC contributors is doing great!
We got a new, more modern web site, System76's COSMIC desktop environment is getting printing support, both printer setup tool and print dialog, KDE Print Manager is made rady for the CUPS 3.x future, we get CI testing all around, more fuzz testing, a multi-function printer simulator for testing, development, and debugging, a C++-free PDF interpreter based on PDFio with permissive license, and more ...
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The 2026 cohort of #OpenPrinting GSoC contributors is doing great!
We got a new, more modern web site, System76's COSMIC desktop environment is getting printing support, both printer setup tool and print dialog, KDE Print Manager is made rady for the CUPS 3.x future, we get CI testing all around, more fuzz testing, a multi-function printer simulator for testing, development, and debugging, a C++-free PDF interpreter based on PDFio with permissive license, and more ...
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The 2026 cohort of #OpenPrinting GSoC contributors is doing great!
We got a new, more modern web site, System76's COSMIC desktop environment is getting printing support, both printer setup tool and print dialog, KDE Print Manager is made rady for the CUPS 3.x future, we get CI testing all around, more fuzz testing, a multi-function printer simulator for testing, development, and debugging, a C++-free PDF interpreter based on PDFio with permissive license, and more ...
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The forth edition of the Opportunity Open Source in the IIIT Allahabad, India, is coming closer and we still have space for submission of proposals for talks, workshops, panels, BoFs, demo tables, ...
Therefore we have extended the deadline to the end of this month!
Submit until Friday, July 31, 11:59pm IST (18:29 UTC)
We are eager to see your amazing proposals!
Call for Proposals:
https://events.canonical.com/event/154/abstracts/OpenPrinting News:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0-Call-for-Proposals-extended-to-end-of-July -
The forth edition of the Opportunity Open Source in the IIIT Allahabad, India, is coming closer and we still have space for submission of proposals for talks, workshops, panels, BoFs, demo tables, ...
Therefore we have extended the deadline to the end of this month!
Submit until Friday, July 31, 11:59pm IST (18:29 UTC)
We are eager to see your amazing proposals!
Call for Proposals:
https://events.canonical.com/event/154/abstracts/OpenPrinting News:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0-Call-for-Proposals-extended-to-end-of-July -
The forth edition of the Opportunity Open Source in the IIIT Allahabad, India, is coming closer and we still have space for submission of proposals for talks, workshops, panels, BoFs, demo tables, ...
Therefore we have extended the deadline to the end of this month!
Submit until Friday, July 31, 11:59pm IST (18:29 UTC)
We are eager to see your amazing proposals!
Call for Proposals:
https://events.canonical.com/event/154/abstracts/OpenPrinting News:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0-Call-for-Proposals-extended-to-end-of-July -
The forth edition of the Opportunity Open Source in the IIIT Allahabad, India, is coming closer and we still have space for submission of proposals for talks, workshops, panels, BoFs, demo tables, ...
Therefore we have extended the deadline to the end of this month!
Submit until Friday, July 31, 11:59pm IST (18:29 UTC)
We are eager to see your amazing proposals!
Call for Proposals:
https://events.canonical.com/event/154/abstracts/OpenPrinting News:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0-Call-for-Proposals-extended-to-end-of-July -
The forth edition of the Opportunity Open Source in the IIIT Allahabad, India, is coming closer and we still have space for submission of proposals for talks, workshops, panels, BoFs, demo tables, ...
Therefore we have extended the deadline to the end of this month!
Submit until Friday, July 31, 11:59pm IST (18:29 UTC)
We are eager to see your amazing proposals!
Call for Proposals:
https://events.canonical.com/event/154/abstracts/OpenPrinting News:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0-Call-for-Proposals-extended-to-end-of-July -
@phranck Thanks for posting to spread it more.
@giamik And thanks to you by making me aware.
But I know it already, I saw their very first announcement on the croudsupply site and then I immediately looked up the creators on LinkedIn and contacted them, offering collaboration, especially as they were already telling that they use #CUPS.
I joined their Discord channel, made suggestions to them and no Openprinter and OpenPrinting work together ...
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@phranck Thanks for posting to spread it more.
@giamik And thanks to you by making me aware.
But I know it already, I saw their very first announcement on the croudsupply site and then I immediately looked up the creators on LinkedIn and contacted them, offering collaboration, especially as they were already telling that they use #CUPS.
I joined their Discord channel, made suggestions to them and no Openprinter and OpenPrinting work together ...
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@phranck Thanks for posting to spread it more.
@giamik And thanks to you by making me aware.
But I know it already, I saw their very first announcement on the croudsupply site and then I immediately looked up the creators on LinkedIn and contacted them, offering collaboration, especially as they were already telling that they use #CUPS.
I joined their Discord channel, made suggestions to them and no Openprinter and OpenPrinting work together ...
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@phranck Thanks for posting to spread it more.
@giamik And thanks to you by making me aware.
But I know it already, I saw their very first announcement on the croudsupply site and then I immediately looked up the creators on LinkedIn and contacted them, offering collaboration, especially as they were already telling that they use #CUPS.
I joined their Discord channel, made suggestions to them and no Openprinter and OpenPrinting work together ...
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@phranck Thanks for posting to spread it more.
@giamik And thanks to you by making me aware.
But I know it already, I saw their very first announcement on the croudsupply site and then I immediately looked up the creators on LinkedIn and contacted them, offering collaboration, especially as they were already telling that they use #CUPS.
I joined their Discord channel, made suggestions to them and no Openprinter and OpenPrinting work together ...
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@juanmitaboada has invited me again to speak on the @opensouthcode!
I will give you an update on what we are doing at OpenPrinting in my talk:
OpenPrinting - We continue to make printing just work!
How are we approaching the next generation of CUPS? New printer setup tools in #KDE, #GNOME, and especially in #COSMIC, a lot more ... and ...
... Akarshan Kapoor will present scanning in immutable and sandboxed environments ...
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2026/program/proposals/1118
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@juanmitaboada has invited me again to speak on the @opensouthcode!
I will give you an update on what we are doing at OpenPrinting in my talk:
OpenPrinting - We continue to make printing just work!
How are we approaching the next generation of CUPS? New printer setup tools in #KDE, #GNOME, and especially in #COSMIC, a lot more ... and ...
... Akarshan Kapoor will present scanning in immutable and sandboxed environments ...
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2026/program/proposals/1118
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@juanmitaboada has invited me again to speak on the @opensouthcode!
I will give you an update on what we are doing at OpenPrinting in my talk:
OpenPrinting - We continue to make printing just work!
How are we approaching the next generation of CUPS? New printer setup tools in #KDE, #GNOME, and especially in #COSMIC, a lot more ... and ...
... Akarshan Kapoor will present scanning in immutable and sandboxed environments ...
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2026/program/proposals/1118
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@juanmitaboada has invited me again to speak on the @opensouthcode!
I will give you an update on what we are doing at OpenPrinting in my talk:
OpenPrinting - We continue to make printing just work!
How are we approaching the next generation of CUPS? New printer setup tools in #KDE, #GNOME, and especially in #COSMIC, a lot more ... and ...
... Akarshan Kapoor will present scanning in immutable and sandboxed environments ...
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2026/program/proposals/1118
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@juanmitaboada has invited me again to speak on the @opensouthcode!
I will give you an update on what we are doing at OpenPrinting in my talk:
OpenPrinting - We continue to make printing just work!
How are we approaching the next generation of CUPS? New printer setup tools in #KDE, #GNOME, and especially in #COSMIC, a lot more ... and ...
... Akarshan Kapoor will present scanning in immutable and sandboxed environments ...
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2026/program/proposals/1118
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OpenPrinting has a new web site now!
Great new features:
- Blog posts listed with teaser image, author, and date
- Embedded video playing in posts
- Search facility for text content and for printer/driver look-up
- Printer/Driver look-up with pre-built, static pages: Faster, more functionalityThanks to @rudraps for his GSoC 2025 project and also to the contributors helping finish it this year!
Enjoy our new site!
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-The-New-OpenPrinting-Website
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OpenPrinting has a new web site now!
Great new features:
- Blog posts listed with teaser image, author, and date
- Embedded video playing in posts
- Search facility for text content and for printer/driver look-up
- Printer/Driver look-up with pre-built, static pages: Faster, more functionalityThanks to @rudraps for his GSoC 2025 project and also to the contributors helping finish it this year!
Enjoy our new site!
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-The-New-OpenPrinting-Website
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OpenPrinting has a new web site now!
Great new features:
- Blog posts listed with teaser image, author, and date
- Embedded video playing in posts
- Search facility for text content and for printer/driver look-up
- Printer/Driver look-up with pre-built, static pages: Faster, more functionalityThanks to @rudraps for his GSoC 2025 project and also to the contributors helping finish it this year!
Enjoy our new site!
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-The-New-OpenPrinting-Website
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OpenPrinting has a new web site now!
Great new features:
- Blog posts listed with teaser image, author, and date
- Embedded video playing in posts
- Search facility for text content and for printer/driver look-up
- Printer/Driver look-up with pre-built, static pages: Faster, more functionalityThanks to @rudraps for his GSoC 2025 project and also to the contributors helping finish it this year!
Enjoy our new site!
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-The-New-OpenPrinting-Website
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OpenPrinting has a new web site now!
Great new features:
- Blog posts listed with teaser image, author, and date
- Embedded video playing in posts
- Search facility for text content and for printer/driver look-up
- Printer/Driver look-up with pre-built, static pages: Faster, more functionalityThanks to @rudraps for his GSoC 2025 project and also to the contributors helping finish it this year!
Enjoy our new site!
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-The-New-OpenPrinting-Website
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After 3 successful Opportunity Open Source conferences we will celebrate the 4th one, in the
Indian Institute for Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India!
It will take place on August 28-30, 2026!
The Call for Proposals is open until July, 3, see link below.
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7467709764303757312/
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After 3 successful Opportunity Open Source conferences we will celebrate the 4th one, in the
Indian Institute for Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India!
It will take place on August 28-30, 2026!
The Call for Proposals is open until July, 3, see link below.
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7467709764303757312/
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After 3 successful Opportunity Open Source conferences we will celebrate the 4th one, in the
Indian Institute for Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India!
It will take place on August 28-30, 2026!
The Call for Proposals is open until July, 3, see link below.
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7467709764303757312/
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After 3 successful Opportunity Open Source conferences we will celebrate the 4th one, in the
Indian Institute for Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India!
It will take place on August 28-30, 2026!
The Call for Proposals is open until July, 3, see link below.
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7467709764303757312/
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After 3 successful Opportunity Open Source conferences we will celebrate the 4th one, in the
Indian Institute for Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India!
It will take place on August 28-30, 2026!
The Call for Proposals is open until July, 3, see link below.
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7467709764303757312/
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@leo @keen456 Printer Applications are not restricted to Snaps. The first ready-to-install binary packages of them are indeed Snaps, but this is because Snap allows for distro-independent packaging system software and daemons, in contrary to Flatpak and AppImage, and also Ubuntu, which supports Snap best is a very widespread distro.
Generally, you can package Printer Applications in other formats, we work also on OCI containers (Docker, cloud-native, ...), or just DEB or RPM ...
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@leo @keen456 Printer Applications are not restricted to Snaps. The first ready-to-install binary packages of them are indeed Snaps, but this is because Snap allows for distro-independent packaging system software and daemons, in contrary to Flatpak and AppImage, and also Ubuntu, which supports Snap best is a very widespread distro.
Generally, you can package Printer Applications in other formats, we work also on OCI containers (Docker, cloud-native, ...), or just DEB or RPM ...
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@leo @keen456 Printer Applications are not restricted to Snaps. The first ready-to-install binary packages of them are indeed Snaps, but this is because Snap allows for distro-independent packaging system software and daemons, in contrary to Flatpak and AppImage, and also Ubuntu, which supports Snap best is a very widespread distro.
Generally, you can package Printer Applications in other formats, we work also on OCI containers (Docker, cloud-native, ...), or just DEB or RPM ...
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@leo @keen456 Printer Applications are not restricted to Snaps. The first ready-to-install binary packages of them are indeed Snaps, but this is because Snap allows for distro-independent packaging system software and daemons, in contrary to Flatpak and AppImage, and also Ubuntu, which supports Snap best is a very widespread distro.
Generally, you can package Printer Applications in other formats, we work also on OCI containers (Docker, cloud-native, ...), or just DEB or RPM ...
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@leo @keen456 Printer Applications are not restricted to Snaps. The first ready-to-install binary packages of them are indeed Snaps, but this is because Snap allows for distro-independent packaging system software and daemons, in contrary to Flatpak and AppImage, and also Ubuntu, which supports Snap best is a very widespread distro.
Generally, you can package Printer Applications in other formats, we work also on OCI containers (Docker, cloud-native, ...), or just DEB or RPM ...
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Yes, these bridges are the Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers which talk with the non-driverless printer hardware on their other end. They replace classic printer drivers and PPD files.
CUPS will stop supporting classic drivers and PPD files from 3.x on.
So the recommended architecture for printer drivers is the Printer Application.
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Yes, these bridges are the Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers which talk with the non-driverless printer hardware on their other end. They replace classic printer drivers and PPD files.
CUPS will stop supporting classic drivers and PPD files from 3.x on.
So the recommended architecture for printer drivers is the Printer Application.
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Yes, these bridges are the Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers which talk with the non-driverless printer hardware on their other end. They replace classic printer drivers and PPD files.
CUPS will stop supporting classic drivers and PPD files from 3.x on.
So the recommended architecture for printer drivers is the Printer Application.
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Yes, these bridges are the Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers which talk with the non-driverless printer hardware on their other end. They replace classic printer drivers and PPD files.
CUPS will stop supporting classic drivers and PPD files from 3.x on.
So the recommended architecture for printer drivers is the Printer Application.
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Yes, these bridges are the Printer Applications, software emulations of driverless IPP printers which talk with the non-driverless printer hardware on their other end. They replace classic printer drivers and PPD files.
CUPS will stop supporting classic drivers and PPD files from 3.x on.
So the recommended architecture for printer drivers is the Printer Application.