Older printers' support
Older printers' support
Posted Jun 7, 2021 10:45 UTC (Mon) by mchehab (subscriber, #41156)In reply to: Older printers' support by zdzichu
Parent article: Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
> But for Hewlett Packard MFP1132… this is basic home printer with a scanner, nothing fancy. I'm surprised it isn't in 98%.
Those cheap USB-only laser scanner/printers don't have IPP natively. I have one such printer too, as the cost per page on such devices is very low.
Using it as a network printer is tricky, as the default support via hplip requires a proprietary x86-only driver, which require upgrades almost every time CUPS is upgraded. Also, as it is x86-only, one can't use a cheap arm device like RPi to be a printer server, and, last time I checked, the alternative of using foo2zjs driver won't provide sane support over the network.