Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 9:10 AM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > With ipp-usb, my printer has six options: color, grayscale, deep gray, > device gray, device RGB, and deep color. I have no idea what the last > four of these mean. I also don't know whether the grayscale setting > corresponds to

Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-31 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
Hi Kamil, On 3/31/22 14:19, Kamil Paral wrote: I very much like how Chris summarized the problem in a more user-friendly language in test list [1]: The very rudimentary summary is: 1. When upgrading (does not apply to clean installs); 2. with a printer that supports ipp-usb

Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-31 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, Mar 31 2022 at 02:19:35 PM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: 10. Can it happen that the IPP-over-USB approach offers less printing options than its real driver counterpart? E.g. paper types, color adjustments, etc. With hplip my printer had three color mode options: color, high-quality

Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-31 Thread Benjamin Berg
Hi, On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 15:55 +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > On 3/30/22 03:26, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > (removing us...@lists.fedoraproject.org)... > > > > On Wed, Mar 23 2022 at 01:58:33 PM +0100, Zdenek Dohnal > > wrote: > > > Unfortunately there is no clean upgrade path to solve the

Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-31 Thread Kamil Paral
Hi Zdenek, a QA person here. This sounds like it's going to be a major headache for us (and our users), I hope I'm wrong. I initially skipped your message, because it was too technical (seemed targeted at system admins, not regular users) and I don't know half of the printer-related abbreviations

Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-30 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
On 3/30/22 03:26, Michael Catanzaro wrote: (removing us...@lists.fedoraproject.org)... On Wed, Mar 23 2022 at 01:58:33 PM +0100, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: Unfortunately there is no clean upgrade path to solve the migration automatically because of unrealistic requirements such as:  - the USB

Re: [IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
(removing us...@lists.fedoraproject.org)... On Wed, Mar 23 2022 at 01:58:33 PM +0100, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: Unfortunately there is no clean upgrade path to solve the migration automatically because of unrealistic requirements such as: - the USB device would have needed to be plugged in and

[IPP-over-USB printers/scanners] Expected breakage when ipp-usb+a driver are installed

2022-03-23 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
Hi all, driverless+printer applications world of printing and scanning is coming in the future: - printer driver, raw queues and other removals are planned with CUPS 3.0, roughly in the next year, - printer applications RPMs are waiting for cups-filters 2.0, but the apps are in SNAP already