On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 9:26 AM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> > Solomon Peachy wrote:
> >> On the other hand, the average person wanting to "just print something"
> >> can do just that without ever adjusting any settings.
> >
> > Looks like you do not have a duplex printer. (Hint: Printing duplex is not
> > always what you want. But never printing duplex makes even less sense.
> > There's also short side duplex that makes sense in some cases for
> > landscape printing.)
>
> Another example: What do you do when you run out of black ink at a time
> where no stores are open (night, weekend, hard lockdown, etc.)? With
> Gutenprint, it is very easy to change from CMYK mode to CMY mode with
> composite black.

Consumer printers have trended toward having an RGB only interface,
making it impossible to directly control them per channel. In effect,
the print driver is becoming part of the printer's firmware.


-- 
Chris Murphy
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