On 2/13/23 10:30, Brian wrote:
On Mon 13 Feb 2023 at 10:08:22 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
On 2/13/23 10:00, Brian wrote:
On Mon 13 Feb 2023 at 09:30:32 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
On 2/13/23 06:01, Brian wrote:
On Mon 13 Feb 2023 at 09:25:15 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 07:12:42PM +0000, Brian wrote:
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Fortunately, the vast majority of users with a modern printer have
not taken a similar view. They now enjoy an effortless and enjoyable
printing experience.
My printer is all well, thankyouverymuch. Whenever I'm after an
"experience", I take my bike and ride to the mountains, very
enjoyable :)
Such a journey would give ample opportunity to ponder why mDNS
multicasting is welcomed by so many users and whether you will
embrace it when CUPS ceases to support legacy printers. :)
Precisely the unsaid point of my last post. That will be the impetus to
fork cups.
That's very doubtful. The printing system's New Architecture
includes extensive and sound provision to support legacy
printers. More or less, all the PPD's and drivers distributed
by Debian are catered for.
The idea is fine, Brian, but for Brother stuff, its crippling. A multitray
printer is restricted to the most expensive paper, where duplex does not
work either. In 2023, that is Unforgivable.
You are basing your view on experience of a single Brother
printer, the MFC-J6920DW. This is an IPP printer. It is
perfectly possible for the IPP implementation to be less
than perfect. Nothing to do with our printing system.
You'll have thoroughly investigated this aspect of the
vendor's machine, of course?
Wrong again Brian. I have two of their printers here as there is also a
$120 b&w laser that happily spits out 20+ pages a minute in full duplex.
But running on the debian supplied drivers it can't even duplex. And it
will if its anything like its predecessor, continue to do that the rest
of my life, or 50,000 pages as long as I feed it toner & decent paper.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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