On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 18:11 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 12:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > CUPS wrote: > > > > Note:Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will > > > > stop > > > > working in a > > > future version of CUPS. > > > > > > Then what? > > > It wrote that after I installed a Brother HL-L2360DW > > > using the printer-driver-brlaser-6.2.6-1.fc38.x86_64 package. > > > It provided the > > > Brother HL-L2360D series, using brlaser v6 (en) > > > option under model. > > > > > > If CUPS rejects my printer before it runs out of ink, > > > will I have another option? > > > > My Brother all-in-one (DCP-L2530DW) works without the proprietary > > drivers, using the "driverless" Avahi config option (i.e. DNSSD). I > > assume that's what the CUPS message is referring to. > > Not really sure what driverless means. > I think DCP-L2530DW was one of the "model" > options available without the package. > Had to install a package to get mine. 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. poc _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
