On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 18:40 +0300, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > 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? I've used (now old) printers that have ethernet ports in both ways (through a server, and direct). HP printers are probably one of the easiest to do that way, but I have a Canon Pixma working like that too. HP seem to be particularly good at supporting one or more common print languages (their own and PostScript) across most of their printers, and possibly due to their widespread office use bother to make them usable with Linux. Apple's takeover of CUPS probably helped persuade other printer manufacturers to stop being just windows-only devices. Printers are one of those things where so many of them do not use any standard language, each one doing their own (often buggy) thing, so you need to access them (those individualistic ones) through a driver. Having that kind of printer running through a server, then having your other printers go through that server (instead of direct) minimises that problem, in that your print server is the only one you'd have to install drivers on. A server can also help with auto-discovery, *not* *all* printers directly advertise themselves on a network (i.e. some *do*). Without that, each PC would need to be individually configured to use a printer. As opposed to the print server just appearing when you go to print a file. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 15:27:06 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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
