using network printers, what non-cups things exist?

[Peter Flynn]

On 11/11/2019 10:24, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> 
> I spent most of yesterday trying to get an HP OfficeJet to print from 16.04

I long ago gave up getting the drivers that come with CUPS to print on 
HP devices. I always use HP's hplip from their web site at 
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip
It's tedious to install but it has always worked for me even on very 
recent HP printers, especially on wide (A3) printers for which the 
native CUPS drivers are almost always broken (only printing an A4-sized 
area on the A3 paper even when configured for A3).

An alternative, if you have a Mac, is to install the printer there, and 
then go and find the driver (the .ppd file) that was installed, and copy 
it to your Linux box, and use CUPS to install the printer using that.

Peter