On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 18:11 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 12:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > CUPS wrote:
> > > Note:Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will
> > > stop
> > > working in a
> > future version of CUPS.
> >
> > Then what?
> > It wrote that after I installed a Brother HL-L2360DW
> > using the printer-driver-brlaser-6.2.6-1.fc38.x86_64 package.
> > It provided the
> > Brother HL-L2360D series, using brlaser v6 (en)
> > option under model.
> >
> > If CUPS rejects my printer before it runs out of ink,
> > will I have another option?
>
> My Brother all-in-one (DCP-L2530DW) works without the proprietary
> drivers, using the "driverless" Avahi config option (i.e. DNSSD). I
> assume that's what the CUPS message is referring to.
Not really sure what driverless means.
I think DCP-L2530DW was one of the "model"
options available without the package.
Had to install a package to get mine.
Clearly there is a driver involved. I think the term just means that no
additional driver is required. Note that Microsoft recently announced
that future versions of Windows (IIRC) would not support manufacturer-
provided drivers, so there appears to be an industry move in this
direction.
poc