Hi, On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:57 +0100 Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steven Ellis wrote: > > The issue on our home systems is 3rd party printer drivers. > > > > Eg > > mfc9140cdncupswrapper-1.1.4-0.i386 > > dcpj4120dwlpr-3.0.1-1.i386 > > dcpj4120dwcupswrapper-3.0.1-1.i386 > > mfc9140cdnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386 > > > > These then pull in a whole load of dependencies relating to CUPs > > etc. > > According to https://openprinting.github.io/printers/ , both those > printers allegedly support driverless printing through the Apple > AirPrint standard, which is supported by current CUPS. This SHOULD > include AirPrint over USB, if the standard is correctly and > completely implemented. It may be worth trying, though it may expose > fewer options than using the proprietary CUPS driver RPM. I do not have the above models, but I also need i686 for my Brother printer driver, even though my model (HL-L8250CDN) is also listed on that website. This is because not even the basic functions work correctly using the out-of-the-box support -- the whole "printing options" page is blank. I'm not sure if this is an error on the GNOME side or on the Brother side, but I do know that installing the driver which I have been unofficially packaging sinds ~ F23 makes it work again (at the expense of having the network-discovered printer appear as well, with the non-functional out-of-the-box "driver"). I did not report a bug about the missing options, I guess I can do that somewhere in the OpenPrinting organisation now that that has gained some momentum. In the meantime, the i686 driver is needed on this end. > I do not know whether these printers would also work with some Free > as in Speech CUPS driver such as generic PostScript, PCL, or ESC/P, > or such as the Gutenprint drivers for older Brother printer models, > nor, if they would at all, whether that would lead to more > flexibility than just using AirPrint. No other driver I tried in the ~ F23 timeframe would give me any output at that time. Regards, Stijn _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
