> In Japan you can print via USB stick, sd-card, wifi, cloud Yep. Even if you need to own a printer, lots of modern printers for office or home also offer thos

> In Japan you can print via USB stick, sd-card, wifi, cloud Yep. Even if you need to own a printer, lots of modern printers for office or home also offer those options. For 99% of the cases it's just as good as printing from the computer. This is how it should be, IMO. CUPS is ok, but I would rather never have to install any software related to HP, Epson or Canon on my machine, let alone a driver.