Printers increasingly speak a standardised protocol, making it feasible to support printers without any drivers at all!
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Wilfred Hughes (wilfredh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jun-2021 07:54:28 CEST Wilfred Hughes
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Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jun-2021 08:15:38 CEST Ludovic Courtès
@wilfredh “Almost all printers made in the last ten years should support IPP Everywhere” sounds optimistic to me.
Also, connected printers are roughly computers; IOW, we’re moving drivers from the user’s machine to (proprietary) software running in the printer.
(All that said, I’d love to be optimistic about printer setup. :-))