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Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Posted Jun 7, 2021 23:01 UTC (Mon) by jafd (subscriber, #129642)
Parent article: Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Whew!

Now in another 30 years, we're going to tackle scanners.

Oh deities!

Somehow even scanners that are said to work, don't quite work, and need proprietary binaries that will only work with a particular libc.so.6. They are being made by the same companies that gladly jump onto the driverless printing bandwagon, and I happen to own a beautifully schizophrenic multifunction unit whose printer is "driverless" and just works, while the scanner part works not at all even on macOS (because its stupid app suite — scanners always come with stupid apps — are 32-bit-only).


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Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Posted Jun 9, 2021 1:54 UTC (Wed) by akumria (guest, #7773) [Link]

That is already being handled: https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan

it works pretty well for printers that implement either of the two standards (eSCL or WSD).


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