Hi all,
it is another year and we have an aggregated report of what changed in
the printing world since the last year.
The whole notes are as the attachment, but highlights are:
- myself (Zdenek Dohnal) being release manager for CUPS 2.4.x series
- Till Kamppeter wrote printer applications which covers all printer
drivers in Debian distribution - we don't have any additional printer
driver package in Fedora, so all our driver packages are covered as well
- printer applications (the solution for driver-only printers how to
work with IPP-only CUPS) are available as SNAPs in Fedora (feel free to
try them and leave feedback at the respective OpenPrinting project
https://github.com/orgs/OpenPrinting/repositories ), packaging them as
RPMs is blocked due dependency on cups-filters 2.0, which is not
released yet (though IIRC someone from Fedora community - maybe Brandon
Nielsen - has them in copr)
- in case of proprietary drivers which aren't packaged in OS there is a
legacy printer application inside of pappl-retrofit project, which, once
you install the printer in this printer application with the proprietary
driver you need, gives the printer IPP Everywhere interface, which makes
it visible for CUPS
- flatpak isn't designed for system services such as CUPS and printer
applications, so Till will investigate shipping containerized printer
applications via OCI containers on dockerhub
Enjoy!
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Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC