On Tue 16 Mar 2021 at 19:57:47 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > Brian Potkin wrote: > >> USB connected printers and driverless printing > >> ---------------------------------------------- > >> > >> The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describe the driverless printing > >> situation implemented via CUPS and cups-filters. [1] The changes apply to > >> modern printers connected by ethernet or wireless. [2] > >> > >> The release of Debian 11 sees the inclusion of ipp-usb in the stable > >> archive. ipp-usb is recommended by cups-daemon and utilises the > >> vendor-neutral IPP-over-USB protocol that is supported by many modern > >> printers. ipp-usb allows a USB device to be seen and treated as a network > >> device. The outcome is that driverless printing is extended to include USB > >> connected printers. The specifics are outlined on the wiki. [3] > >> > >> The systemd service file included in the ipp-usb package starts the > >> ipp-usb daemon when a printer is plugged in. A USB connected printer now > >> becomes available to print to, either by being auto-setup by cups-browsed, > >> which is the default technique, or being manually installed [4] with a > >> local driverless print queue. > >> > >> The use of vendor printer drivers, free and non-free, becomes unnecessary > >> with networked and USB connected printers. > >> > >> > >> [1] > >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing > >> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues > >> [3] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting. > >> [4] https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting > > > > Thinking on: > > > > The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describe... > > > > should probably be > > > > The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describes... > > Plural "notes", so I'd say that they "describe" the situation (and my > native en_GB tends if anything to be more tolerant than en_US of > mismatches). But it might be worth shifting things round so that the > sentence has a different subject, since this would let it introduce > topics in a more natural order: > > Modern printers connected by ethernet or wireless [1] can use driverless > printing, implemented via CUPS and cups-filters, as described in the > Debian 10 "buster" Release Notes. [2]
I haven't any problem with that change. I particularly wanted a referral to buster because many users are still apparently unaware of the changes in the printing system. This is noticable with HP devices; HPLIP has "HP" in its name, so it must be good! > [...] > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues > [2] > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing > > Oh, watch out, that /stable/ URL will point at the wrong thing soon! > We need > [2] > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing A good point. > > Having [3] as > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#debian > > > > might be considered more targeted. > > Calling that anchor "#debian" implies that the rest of the page is > about something other than Debian; and using the release name as a > section title will make things harder to follow once we're moving > towards Debian 12 "bookworm"! Couldn't the section be titled > something like "IPP-over-USB: automatic setup"? I'd see that as a wiki issue rather a Release Notes issue; thanks for raising it. I am inclining towards adopting your section title suggestion. Regards, Brian.
