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> 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 in
by 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.