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Announcing printerdAnnouncing printerdPosted May 22, 2012 23:55 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)Parent article: Announcing printerd
Problem: Linux doesn't have enough support for proprietary printers that don't speak postscript or IPP.
Solution: throw out all the common infrastructure and re-do it. If the infrastructure is shiny enough, nobody will notice that they can't actually print.
Brilliant. I expect a long time period during which the maintainers blame buggy printer drivers for the fact that nothing works under the new infrastructure, a la Pulse Audio.
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Announcing printerd Posted May 23, 2012 0:46 UTC (Wed) by shemminger (subscriber, #5739) [Link]
The problem with printers is they are all non-standard, so having a pollyanna view of the world is useless. My Brother laser printer has been broken for months because the CUPS developers decided to send certain postscript which causes the printer to give up and print blank pages. Since the firmware can't be fixed, the problem gets pushed back to CUPS to not send the bad code.
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