Le 18/09/2021 à 17:20, James H. H. Lampert a écrit :
On 9/18/21 2:00 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
The direction of travel for printing is entirely driverless, so this is
less important than it used to be.
Really? If true, that is exceptionally good news. The last time I looked
at new printers, the "direction of travel" was entirely
driver-dependent, RIPping the PostScript, PCL, or straight ASCII in the
driver, rather than in the printer's own processor and firmware, and
anything that could RIP a PostScript data stream directly would have
cost a fortune.
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JHHL
Hi,
I second this, I had to change my printer in a hurry recently and I
couldn't find anything I liked locally, so had to settle on an Epson
(ink). I had very bad experiences with this brand in the past driver
wise, but this time I saw CUPS use automatically the "driver-less" stack
and I was printing seconds after plugging the machine in. Maybe it
doesn't provide advanced features, but for a simple printer (not
"all-in-one" scan/print/whatnot) it works very well, even for image
printing.