On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:33:45PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 24.05.2021 12:30, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> > Not only is it possible, it's been done.
>
> For all existing printers in the world? I don't believe.
For all printers? Of course not. But that wasn't what Zdenek wrote.
At least two printer families have working Printer Applications _today_.
There is a reasonable plan in place to port several more, and once
complete that will encompass the vast majority of the printers still in
use.
Meanwhile, stuff that never had a native Linux/CUPS driver still won't
work. And stuff that was only ever made available with a proprietary
binary driver can be wrapped with legacy CUPS, which itself is a
"printer application".
Printing has always been an awful, awful mess, and the fact it works as
well as it does is a testatment to the thankless efforts of the OpenPrinting
folks (and their predecessors).
Indeed, these days, it's a rare (new-ish) printer that doesn't
JusWork(tm). The Printer Application model is attempting to bring the
older/niche models into the same "driverless" paradigm. This is a
VeryGoodThing(tm), as it means printing will automagically JustWork(tm)
for just about everyone -- Linux, Android, iOS, MacOS, and even Windows!
We're even going to (finally!) be getting sane color profile management
out of the box!
- Solomon
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