On 7/28/22 01:15, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 21:56:44 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
On 7/27/22 20:25, Gareth Evans wrote:
On 28 Jul 2022, at 00:36, Gareth Evans <donots...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
[...] unless the [driverless] queue was added via lpadmin.
Just to correct the point, i keep forgetting, it seems even this fails with the
latest cups version on Bullseye where fax printers are concerned.
.
I haven't forgotten. The driverless stuff DOES NOT work, and you
cannot delete it until you un-install the cups-browser. You can delete
it, and cups says its deleted, but in the 5 seconds it gives you to
read the deleted msg,
cups-browser has recreated it again so its still there by the time you
click on printers again. And it blocks
the makers drivers which in the case of Brother, do everything the
printer is capable of.
Driverless might work with some of the recent $40 printers, but it is
a long way from being ready for
prime time on a 5 yo $700 printer.
At least you could print a test page throughout. Here
we're in danger of running before we can walk.
That is an internal function of the printer unless you are using the
cups test page.
in the case of a brother printer. If the printer is a multifunction, you
can chose to use
tray 1 with $1 a page photo paper in it or tray 2 with 20 lb duplex copy
paper in it,
but the everywhere driver can only drive it to use the dollar a page
paper. That is
what happens with the Brother MFC-J6920DW, It won't do duplex either but
that
printer senses the paper, and will not do duplex w/o changing the paper.
I moved
some copy paper to that drawer and could not get it to do duplex with
the everywhere.
.
I also have a brother utility laser, a $120 el-cheapo HHL2120 that can
do duplex at
about 25 pages a minute, the everywhere driver does simplex only at
about 6 pages
a minute.
I've known Mike since the 1980's, we do not talk, his choice. So it does
me no good
to send a message to the cups list. From me, it goes straight to /dev/null..
So let me know when the everywhere drivers /actually/ do work. They do
not now.
Take care and stay well, David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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