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Also doable with _any_ Linux workstation. It's remarkable when Linux works better with hardware than Windows. I have an old HP Laser Jet 1012 for which Windows
by m0zg 5y ago
Also doable with _any_ Linux workstation. It's remarkable when Linux works better with hardware than Windows. I have an old HP Laser Jet 1012 for which Windows no longer has drivers, but Linux does, and as an added bonus it simply shows up on other Linux machines and on iOS devices as well - no set up required at all. Ironically, Windows is the most painful OS to set up to work with a remote CUPS printer.
Paraphrasing Microsoft's old motto about Lotus Notes: "It ain't done until your old printer doesn't run."
- chrisseaton 5y ago> Ironically, Windows is the most painful OS to set up to work with a remote CUPS printer. Ironic that Windows doesn't work well with a printer using a Unix interface?
- m0zg 5y agoIronic that everything but Windows works fine with zero setup. iOS is not "UNIX", for example. And because the set-up is onerous but relatively straighforward to someone technical, I'm sure they could easily make it automatic. They just choose not to. God forbid HP makes a few dollars less from their cash cow, or MS engineer gets distracted from rearranging toolbar buttons needlessly for the umpteenth time. Can't have that.
- asveikau 5y agoWindows works out of the box with older "Unix printer interfaces" -- it has a built in driver for lpd printers. I use it, because my printer setup is a raspberry pi with lprng rather than cups.
- easton 5y agoI know it won't happen because of some major vendor using functionality from Windows 3.1, but I kind of wish that Microsoft would just take the printing subsystem out of Windows and replace it with something built around CUPS. It works so darn well, and doesn't require `net stop spooler; net start spooler` to get going. Maybe their Universal Print initiative will help, but that requires a connector or a new printer to work.