Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
Posted Jun 7, 2021 16:49 UTC (Mon) by gnoutchd (guest, #121472)In reply to: Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future by dullfire
Parent article: Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
No, pizza understood you perfectly. "On the network" in this case means "reachable by code that knows how to open an AF_INET socket". There's no reason that can't be a local USB-connected printer as long as you have a driver that binds to a port on localhost and speaks the same protocol that a network printer would speak. ipp-usb is exactly that for any printer that supports IPP-over-USB, a standard widely implemented by modern printers. It's installed and enabled out-of-the-box by current or upcoming distro releases.
Posted Jun 7, 2021 20:55 UTC (Mon)
by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
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localhost is the special "network" with a single host and it's not "pointless": high-level printing protocols (just like most TCP/IP protocols) don't want to know which particular networks your printer is connected to. It's much simpler when "everything is a network" and networking implementation details and choices stay private to you.
Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future