Brian Potkin wrote: >> USB connected printers and driverless printing >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describe the driverless printing >> situation implemented via CUPS and cups-filters. [1] The changes apply to >> modern printers connected by ethernet or wireless. [2] >> >> The release of Debian 11 sees the inclusion of ipp-usb in the stable >> archive. ipp-usb is recommended by cups-daemon and utilises the >> vendor-neutral IPP-over-USB protocol that is supported by many modern >> printers. ipp-usb allows a USB device to be seen and treated as a network >> device. The outcome is that driverless printing is extended to include USB >> connected printers. The specifics are outlined on the wiki. [3] >> >> The systemd service file included in the ipp-usb package starts the >> ipp-usb daemon when a printer is plugged in. A USB connected printer now >> becomes available to print to, either by being auto-setup by cups-browsed, >> which is the default technique, or being manually installed [4] with a >> local driverless print queue. >> >> The use of vendor printer drivers, free and non-free, becomes unnecessary >> with networked and USB connected printers. >> >> >> [1] >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing >> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues >> [3] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting. >> [4] https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting > > Thinking on: > > The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describe... > > should probably be > > The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describes...
Plural "notes", so I'd say that they "describe" the situation (and my native en_GB tends if anything to be more tolerant than en_US of mismatches). But it might be worth shifting things round so that the sentence has a different subject, since this would let it introduce topics in a more natural order: Modern printers connected by ethernet or wireless [1] can use driverless printing, implemented via CUPS and cups-filters, as described in the Debian 10 "buster" Release Notes. [2] [...] [1] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues [2] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing Oh, watch out, that /stable/ URL will point at the wrong thing soon! We need [2] https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing > Having [3] as > > https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#debian > > might be considered more targeted. Calling that anchor "#debian" implies that the rest of the page is about something other than Debian; and using the release name as a section title will make things harder to follow once we're moving towards Debian 12 "bookworm"! Couldn't the section be titled something like "IPP-over-USB: automatic setup"? -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package