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CUPS
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A new, modern, and secure print experience from Windows
If your printer for example supports IPP and Postscript or PDF then that would be possible. Higher end (commercial) HP printers usually offer this functionality. Take a look at CUPS [1] if you want to know more about IPP.
[1] https://www.cups.org/
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Trying to set up an old Zebra LP2844 as a network printer
Your best bet is to set up a print server. The support page even has a CUPS driver. CUPS is well known for supporting a lot of printers. I run it on an old Mac-mini running Ubuntu. You can run it on something as small as a Raspberry Pi.
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PostScript’s Sudden Death in Sonoma
Apple should be more open about their removals. It isn't clear how this affects their CUPS implementation or PostScript printers https://www.cups.org
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Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
CUPS is under the Apache License 2.0 , so they can just use it, if they wanted: https://github.com/apple/cups/blob/master/LICENSE
They won't of course.
- On the harm shareholders can do to OpenSource
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My collection of Ansible roles for self-hosting everything with Rocky Linux and FreeIPA
CUPS printing server
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Is this easily solvable? I am going crazy
Another alternative is for you to set up a print server in VLAN20. Then set up the print server to print to the printer in VLAN99. CUPS is pretty easy to set up.
- “Sorry to bother you” me, to my printer
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Sharing a Printer in a WiFi Network
But after both Apple and Linux switched their CUPS-based printing systems to Python 3 or some other breaking change that I don't mind to understand, the only way to print a document seemed to be using a PC running Microsoft Windows. So I had to save a PDF in the cloud or email it to myself, then startup Windows on a laptop physically connected to the printer, start the printing process, check if the paper has been printed successfully, and shut down Windows. What a waste of time and energy!
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House upgrade: Need to keep an old USB-only printer connected wirelessly, would this work? (Old Router connected to new router)
Another option is to set up a print server. There are free print server programs that you can run on a computer. CUPS is pretty popular. I used to run it on a Raspberry Pi for an ancient LaserJet 1012. That printer just keeps going.
brlaser
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Sometimes printing is completed without printing
I use a different Brother, but had a similar problem, larger documents wouldn't print or would cutoff. The official br-laser project has not made a release in over 4 years. Meanwhile, there is at least one unreleased patch in the master branch that fixes problems like these. I ended up switching to a fork that is being updated, including the fix(es).
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How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
I have the wired version of this - and it has been fine too. The one issue with the wired version is that there are no good Linux drivers, brlaser [0] kind of works - but fails with certain documents.
[0] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
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Surprised by the support from HP for its printers on Linux
The only thing that worked for my brother laser on a raspberry pi was an unmaintained driver though.
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ELI5: why do home printers fail to work as intended so often?
*brlaser* worked for me https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
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REALLY struggling to get my printer to work. Been trying to fix it for forever.
I use: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser. Works way better than the "official" Brother print drivers. Also, don't forget to install Ghostscript
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Today I learned that the Free Software Movement was ignited by a jammed Xerox laser printer
I have no idea, the drivers for mine only come in 32-bit variety and only as deb or rpm, i haven't bothered with them. Brlaser works okay though.
- How the hell do I build this from source in fedora???
- I have just purchased a Brother HL-1112 printer. I see there is an aur packaged but it hasn't been updated for 5 years. Should I use that or build a new one?
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Review: HP's smallest laser printer – M140w and Linux set up
I bought a Brother HL-L2320D which at the time was the cheapest mono laser with duplexing I could find. On Windows and macOS it's fantastically uneventful, unfortunately on Linux the situation is less great. brlaser [0] does mostly work, but it seems there is a bug as some more complex documents (typically scans) won't print [1]. I ended up patching my version to reduce the size of one of the buffers [2], and haven't seen it fail since, but I doubt I've actually fixed the issue and instead just moved the threshold.
[0] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
[1] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/issues/79#issuecomment-7...
[2] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-config/blob/main/overlays/brla...
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The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network
After a couple of DDG searches, I found brlaser - a community-driven Brother driver. Perfect! I installed CUPS, compiled the driver, and shared the printer over the network.
What are some alternatives?
Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
docker-cups-airprint - A standalone CUPS and Avahi (mDNS/Bonjour) server, exposing local printers on AirPrint for iOS devices
Paperless - Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents
escpos-php - PHP library for printing to ESC/POS-compatible thermal and impact printers
mayan-edms
canon_mc-g02_resetter - Use Arduino to reset the chip inside your Canon printer's MC-G02/G01 Maintenance Cartridge, reuse it almost forever.
cups - OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
nix-config
EdPaper - Helps you organizing your paperwork
cups-sharing - Sharing server for CUPS 3.0
pfSense - Main repository for pfSense
packer-builder-arm - Packer plugin to build ARM images