On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 06:40:39PM +0300, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > Hello! > > It seems like the term "network printer" often refers to printers which are > connected to a computer, which then shares that printer out to the network. > There are tomes and tomes of arcane configuration manuals for getting this > sort of printing to work. However, there are also printers with ethernet > ports, and I would like to know if anyone has experience getting one of > these kinds of printers to work on Linux. Do you just plug the printer in to > your network, turn it on, and see it appear in print dialogs on your > computer, or is the process more involved than that? > It is the only type I'll buy. I add in to that specification PostScript capability. Though I think HP's printer language would work also. In setting them up on their own config procedure I assign a static IP address that is within my subnet. Early on, for my home network I reserved a small block of addresses specifically for printers, X.Y.Z.6[0-9]. For Linux, the CUPS printing system has a pretty good "network discovery" ability. In Days Of Old I sometimes had to locate the ".ppd" file (PS Printer Description?) from the manufacturer, the net, or another OS. They are text files and not OS specific. My experience with Windows is limited to my wife's computers and a VM on linux. But this has been trivial network discovery also. Sometimes helped with manufacturers "driver" software. My current phone and tablet (both Android) can also print to my current printer. The manufacturer had an app for that. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
