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Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Posted Jun 5, 2021 16:16 UTC (Sat) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
Parent article: Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

I'm running Mint 20.1 and I have a driverless printer for my HP 9010.

For the driverless printer:

First, I can't delete it. Mint insists that it's there whether I like it or not.

Second, I can find no way to stop it from printing pages in reverse order (which is nice for a deskjet and single-sided printing,) but please read on.

Finally, and worse than the rest, I can't get Libreoffice to handle envelopes smoothly. On top of that, the envelopes are printed differently than below.

For the driver (HPLIP:)

* I can control the order of page printing

* I have no problem printing envelopes

* I have not yet tested this, but it looks like output is actually better and cleaner with HPLIP.

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The nastiest problem with IPP is envelopes. Now, some of you may be thinking "Why is anyone using envelopes anymore anyway? Why are you even printing anything anymore?" Well, that's OK someday.....just make sure those USB drives and SSDs and micro-SD cards are reliable..... ;)

Anyway, that's my $0.02....


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