On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 08:51:11AM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> Except for Gutenprint, I'm not aware of any printer driver provider
> which plans to provide more specific options with a printer application.
> They seem to be okay with AirPrint. So printer application will be
> needed only for older (<2010) printer models in most cases.
Yeah, Gutenprint is a special case. Or perhaps it's more accurate to
say it represents several special cases, because its intended use cases
require the ability to carefully tune the output.
On the other hand, the average person wanting to "just print something"
can do just that without ever adjusting any settings.
Disclaimer; I wrote most of the dye-sublimation code in Gutenprint. That
family of printers is one of the "verticals" that has completely ignored
IPP, due in part to product lifecycles that routinely exceed a decade.
Instead, dyesub makers have opted to sell little appliances to provide
network connectivity, including SMB for "hot folder" support. Of the
devices I'm aware of, all but one is running Linux + CUPS + Gutenprint.
(The exception still running CUPS, only with their own driver)
Anyway.
- Solomon
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