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#Gutenprint vs foomatic software
Their device dependant additional software (e.g. Need some help to better understand how they could make
#Gutenprint vs foomatic driver
Which is why I mentioned that particular Gutenprint driver discussionĪs an example why even nowadays printer driver developers may Solomon know that you started Gimp-Print that is now called Gutenprint Printing *drivers*, the PPD APIs are all we have to work with. For those like Gutenprint who are trying to write Unfortuntely, those "newer APIs" appear to only be suitable for > and current CUPS provides newer APIs for that functionality. > (but PPD files will still be supported by CUPS for a longer time) > As far as I know PPD files are declared "deprecated" at CUPS upstream On Mon, at 11:37:23AM +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: The PPD APIs are all they have to work with, see "PPD files are declared 'deprecated' at CUPS upstream"Īnd a Gutenprint developer replied that for printer driver developers That wandered from the subject because I wrote something about "OSX support (Was Re: CITIZEN photo printers)" the Gutenprint devel mailing list with subject 2018 there was a discussion on the Gimp-print-devel Or new kind of device functionality which needs device dependantĪdditional software to get the new stuff working. I guess manufacturers will always develop new kind of devices In practice "out there" in the foreseeable future
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Nevertheless I wonder if printing really could work "future planning" looks much less scaring -)
#Gutenprint vs foomatic drivers
You may document that the new interface should be used for new printers, that's ok.Īnother possibility would be that the code for printer drivers and raw printers will be transferred to another (new?) project in a way that it can be easily integrated into cups, like an add-on or other printer thanks for your prompt reply.
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Please leave the code in cups, it already exists and is working, and I think that IPP Everywhere can coexists with the old code, as an alternative. Why will you remove it and make many printers unusable, or force users to use old cups versions? The code for processing printer drivers and raw printers are already in cups, and it is working since many years. Printer drivers should not disturb that printer code by changing it in any way - cups should just queue it and forward it unchanged to the printer. Their may be also special printers that are supported only by a special (proprietary or custom) software, which cannot easily integrated into cups. They support no IPP Everywhere (at least as I know), and there may be many other printers around that need printer drivers. For example, we use three printer HP LaserJet 4350 DN, which are first sold about 2004, and we have HP LaserJet 2300, first sold about 2003. And as an advantage of this approach drivers like Gutenprint will no longer be shackled by the limitations of PPD files.īasically all printers sold in the last 8 years support IPP and standard file formats, we should formally deprecate printer drivers in CUPSīut printers are used longer that 8 years. We already have a replacement for raw queues for shared printers (local/temporary queues managed by cupsd), and raw queues for special-use printers already largely bypass CUPS and can use existing commands or character device files to communicate with those printers.Īs for printer drivers, those few printers that "need" them could migrate to standalone applications/services using the CUPS API to provide an IPP Everywhere-compatible Printer instance, and both the one-file ippserver sample code and the larger implementation in the PWG IPP Sample code repository show this is feasible, even for existing CUPS-based drivers.
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Raw queues used for special-use printers require custom applications that know about printer capabilities and how to produce printer-ready (document) data.Because most printer driversĮxist outside of CUPS this change needs to be discussed publicly.
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Milestone and this is not something we will implement immediately. This bug has not been scheduled for a specific release Note: The goal of this issue is to have a place to discuss the eventual removal of printer driver