printer problem

Brian ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Tue Sep 25 19:13:40 UTC 2018


On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 19:47:22 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:27:50 +0100
> Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > According to
> > 
> > https://www.canon.co.uk/printers/inkjet/pixma/pixma_mx925/specification.aspx
> > 
> > your printer has AirPrint. Accordingly, it is a driverless printer.
> > Why not take advantage?
> > 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#The_Concept_of_Driverless_Printing
> > 
> 
> Thanks. Thats a lot to digest, so I'll leave it until tomorrow.  I note
> that I can print from Libre Office, which I suppose must be set up for
> driverless printing, but I'd also like to be able to print from
> Browsers and other apps like pluma.

Any app you have uses CUPS. CUPS+cups-filters does driverless printing.

Digest.

-- 
Brian.




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