On Tue 14 Feb 2023 at 07:21:00 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 07:07:58AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 2/14/23 06:29, Brian wrote: > > > Anyway, this USB-only printer from 2016 does not provide > > > an IPP-over-USB service. This is not unexpected. > > > > > Are you saying that this printer has been sitting on the Staples display for > > 5 years when I bought it new about when it first showed up there 2 years > > ago? > > Had to dig through the archive to find the model number (HL-L2320D) > again, since it was snipped in this part of the thread. Once I found > the model number, I did a Google search, and this was one of the results: > > > Brother HL-L2320D L2300D best budget laser printer review > https://www.youtube.com › watch > 7:51 > A quick demonstration and review of the Brother HL-L2320D laser printer.Buy > it on Amazon here: http://amzn.to/2haHDsdOr buy the similar ... > YouTube · DarkStoneCastle · Dec 21, 2016 > > > So... yeah, I guess we're saying that your printer was 5 years old at the > moment you bought it. Or at least, that it was a 5-year-old *design*, > even if that particular printer had been assembled more recently.
The Brother HL-L2320D seems to have come on the market in early 2016. I haven't any idea when Staples decided to stock it. > Now, personally I don't consider a 7-year-old product to be an antique, > but maybe Brian does. I certainly can't speak for him on this topic. I do not consider a 7-year-old product to be an antique. The significance of 2016 is that it is four years after the IPP-over-USB standard was ratified. Network printers from 2016 almost certainly (always in my experience) do ship with IPP-over-USB. For some reason USB-only devices generally do not provide it; it's very hit-and-miss. I do not know why all vendors (not just Brother) have taken that decision. It's a real pain as it effectively makes the printer a legacy model and very much limits how it fits into the Debian printing ecosystem. -- Brian.