| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk
| But … they're inside your router's firewall? Sure, they dial out for updates
| sometimes, but what doesn't?
Depending on a single firewall isn't considered good form.
Each machine should be hardened too. Otherwise your network is
crunchy on the outside and
On 2020-06-04 10:51 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I don't like putting printers on my network. … They don't have a
firewall that I can examine and configure.
But … they're inside your router's firewall? Sure, they dial out for
updates sometimes, but what doesn't?
The one disad
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk
| On 2020-06-03 2:21 p.m., Peter King via talk wrote:
| > Why this
| > is *easier* with wireless than it is with a direct connection I couldn't
| > say
|
| There's much less software between you and the printer when you use IPP. Much
| less to go wrong.
Than
On 2020-06-03 2:21 p.m., Peter King via talk wrote:
Thanks to the write-up from Stewart, I managed to print to the HP 1102w
printer by disconnecting USB and using wireless IPP protocol.
Yay! I'm glad this worked for you. I was hoping my walkthrough would be
useful, and was worried it just came
I think "falsisign" looks like fun:
FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign
You scan and save a bunch of signatures. Then the code
modifies the original PDF to look scanned and puts a random
signature where you say to
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 14:51, Scott Allen wrote:
> and you still save the initial "print the form --> sign it" steps.
That should have been
"sign it --> scan it back in" steps
I use a Wacom tablet to do the signing.
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 14:21, Peter King via talk wrote:
> (Doing admin
> work I often am in the cycle of getting forms to sign via email --> print
> the form --> sign it --> scan it back in --> send back via email.)
If your forms are in PDF format, and you don't actually need an exact
physical co
Thanks to the write-up from Stuart, I managed to print to the HP 1102w
printer by disconnecting USB and using wireless IPP protocol. Why this
is *easier* with wireless than it is with a direct connection I couldn't
say, but at least I have a way to print from linux now. (Doing admin
work I often
On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 12:46:16AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> I've given up printing from Linux. I go to Windows 10 laptop, scp the
> file from Linux, then print from there. Always works.
Hmm, I had not printed from linux in a long time, so I thought I
would try. Printed a test page
On 2020-06-01 9:23 a.m., Peter King via talk wrote:
Brother advertises "PostScript 3 Emulation" which I thought was code for
using Ghostscript or whatever.
I just checked: the Brother MFC-L2750DW I have *does* claim to have
BR-Script3 and PCL6, but IPP doesn't need to use it. CUPS will usuall
Thanks for the write-up Stewart, very useful for a non-admin home user like me.
John.
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> -- Original Message --
> From: "Stewart C. Russell via talk"
> Date: June 1, 2020 at 12:20 PM
>
>
> On 2020-06-01 10:14 a.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> >
>
On 2020-06-01 10:14 a.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
But I had gotten myself accustomed to the impression that
"with CUPS, It Just Works(tm)", so colour me surprised.
Has Microsoft pushed back to try to get WinPrinters back to be a
thing?
I don't think so. Since all printers (except c
On 2020-06-01 10:14 AM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
At that time, interoperability with printers and Linux was very much
fraught with troubles. Those were the days of WinModems and
WinPrinters where Microsoft was trying to capture market by
making sure that lots of devices would ONLY talk
I have a Deskjet 2130 that I paid pennies for, and it works on my Ubuntu,
works on a RedHat Enterprise Linux, works on the chromebooks... It's my
first printer in a lng time, because now I have kids in the school and
a printer is essential, but I usually never had issues with CUPS.
Mauro
http:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 09:26, Peter King via talk wrote:
> Sad days when people who voluntarily use Linux and are tech-savvy just
> give up on printing -- printing! -- because it isn't worth the effort.
> There shouldn't *be* any effort by now; it's 2020, for goodness sakes.
>
I guess I'm surpris
On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 12:46:16AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> I've given up printing from Linux. I go to Windows 10 laptop, scp the
> file from Linux, then print from there. Always works.
Yeah, my workaround is to scp files over to MacOS and print from there,
which also works reliabl
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 08:56:39PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> PostScript, in new printers, is extremely rare. Even Brother stopped doing
> BRSCRIPT a few years back. More of them speak PDF directly.
Brother advertises "PostScript 3 Emulation" which I thought was code for
using G
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 07:12:33PM -0400, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
>
>Ah yes, the "modem testing problem" redux.
Exactly!
>I've had good luck with an HP "Color LaserJetPro MFP M177fw", but I
>don't enjoy a system where you buy a printer and only then find out if
>you ha
I've given up printing from Linux. I go to Windows 10 laptop, scp the
file from Linux, then print from there. Always works.
--
William Park
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 06:23:38PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond was right about CUPS some fourteen years ago, in his essay
> "The L
On 2020-05-31 6:23 p.m., Peter King via talk wrote:
I'm considering buying something that should just work,
that is, of getting a monochrome single-function laser printer with embedded
PostScript to handle my needs
PostScript, in new printers, is extremely rare. Even Brother stopped
doing BRS
On 2020-05-31 6:23 p.m., Peter King via talk wrote:
Eric S. Raymond was right about CUPS some fourteen years ago, in his essay
"The Luxury of Ignorance" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html),
and things really haven't gotten any better. Here's an update since I last
posted about
Eric S. Raymond was right about CUPS some fourteen years ago, in his essay
"The Luxury of Ignorance" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html),
and things really haven't gotten any better. Here's an update since I last
posted about six weeks ago.
I had an HP LaserJet 1100a, which worke
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