I'm really not that surprised, printing is one of the most diabolical things in computing. Virtually every printer is different. Even printers by the same manufacturer. Mostly made to work on the current version of Windows, with a specialist driver that may not ever be updated (no bug fixes, and mayn't work on your next OS release), to deal with the manufacturing shortcomings in the printer, as well as the different way each model works. You're virtually expected to throw it away and buy a new one when you cannot use your existing printer with whatever new computer system you're using. I've long since come to the conclusions that old office printers are the best, they're built like a tank and have large capacity ink/toner and paper hoppers. And, if you print from more than one device, you want a printer that connects directly to your network. It's no-longer dependent on a server computer running all the time, and each thing that wants to print only needs to be problem-solved regarding itself and the printer. In the past, I found it best to have a server handle all the printing needs for my network. Everything that wanted to print was a Fedora installation bar one Windows 2000 PC (and it could happily use IPP with my CUPS server). But, trying to do printing via SMB sharing just adds a whole extra load of headaches. You have a third networking protocol to deal with, too, plus all the Windows PCs either wanting to find the driver through a SMB share (which you have to figure out), or needing individual drivers manually installed on each Windows PC. _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
