[GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

[Mauro Souza]

I have a Deskjet 2130 that I paid pennies for, and it works on my Ubuntu,
works on a RedHat Enterprise Linux, works on the chromebooks... It's my
first printer in a loooong time, because now I have kids in the school and
a printer is essential, but I usually never had issues with CUPS.

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
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Em seg., 1 de jun. de 2020 às 11:15, Christopher Browne via talk <
talk at gtalug.org> escreveu:

> On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 09:26, Peter King via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> Sad days when people who voluntarily use Linux and are tech-savvy just
>> give up on printing -- printing! -- because it isn't worth the effort.
>> There shouldn't *be* any effort by now; it's 2020, for goodness sakes.
>>
>
> I guess I'm surprised a bit by this; my experiences have some parallels
> and non-parallels...
>
> Once upon a time, I did really scary printer hacking, had a project where
> I built a component that would put bitmaps of peoples' signatures into
> documents in a print queue so that printed reports would have the
> Lovely Signatures.  There was a step weirder; one of the print queues
> went to a fax machine, as the task was sending price sheets out to
> customers (with the Lovely Signature at the bottom).  That was, like
> circa 1992.
>
> At that time, interoperability with printers and Linux was very much
> fraught with troubles.  Those were the days of WinModems and
> WinPrinters where Microsoft was trying to capture market by
> making sure that lots of devices would ONLY talk to Windows(tm)
>
> Then, some time in the 20-oughts, (after 2000), I encountered CUPS
> and had the "breath of fresh air" of it being pretty much dead easy to
> configure printer usage on Linux.  Each time I have gotten a new PC
> at work has been a point in time where I configured CUPS to talk to
> a couple of our printers.
>
> And my reaction, of late, has been, "It Just Works(tm)"   After the
> old scar tissue from the '90s, it has been just totally easy.   I kinda
> suspect I have had things Dialed To Easy, in view that what I'm
> inevitably connecting to are networked printers that were to a degree
> selected to be simple for our varied platform staff (a few Windows,
> quite a lot of MacOS, and quite a lot of Linux) to connect to, so
> that I'm not treading any ground that's new to anyone local.
>
> But I had gotten myself accustomed to the impression that
> "with CUPS, It Just Works(tm)", so colour me surprised.
>
> Has Microsoft pushed back to try to get WinPrinters back to be a
> thing?  I'm curious as to what may have worsened in the last few
> years.
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