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Printing is still needed and still frustrating

Printing is still needed and still frustrating

Posted Jul 29, 2025 23:27 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Help for OpenPrinting needed

Pretty much every business needs to be able to print papers quickly in case the customer wants a printed copy. Printing also is necessary for shipping. So I would not discount printing yet.

From my experience, printers are still unreliable (especially in Linux, but not just in Linux). Printers disappear from printing dialogs randomly. Jobs get lost or get stuck without explanation. When a printer gets reset and generates a new certificate, the software cannot deal with it. Settings get forgotten. When one needs to print an invoice on one printer and a label on another, the printer needs to be selected every time—it shouldn't take AI to select the right printer and set color output for the invoice and grayscale for the label.


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