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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated
From:       Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-10-31 16:10:06
Message-ID: 61d9bb21d843eca563120a0ad2ed93ac58c9934b.camel () gmail ! com
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On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 08:05 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2023, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > Clearly there is a driver involved. I think the term just means
> > that no
> > additional driver is required. Note that Microsoft recently
> > announced
> > that future versions of Windows (IIRC) would not support
> > manufacturer-
> > provided drivers, so there appears to be an industry move in this
> > direction.
> 
> So, if I wanted to use a printer, e.g. mine,
> that was not support out of the box,
> I would have to change the box,
> i.e. make a custom CUPS?

The theory is that you shouldn't have to do anything except configure
the printer (in CUPS) to use DNSSD. That in turn depends on Avahi
working correctly. Try 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to make sure the
printer is visible.

poc
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