using network printers, what non-cups things exist?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:45:18AM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
> 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

I think when I got cups from their website, the readme claimed there was
a more or less universal ipp thing or something but probably when I tested
that the cartridge was bad so don't remember if that worked. Also the latest
cup kept segfaulting  ( apparently 2.3 and it did say may have bugs but I backed
up and that worked ), 
README - CUPS v2.3.0 - 2019-08-21
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CUPS currently uses PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files that describe
printer capabilities and driver programs needed for each printer.  The
`everywhere` PPD is used for nearly all modern networks printers sold since
about 2009.  For example, the following command creates a print queue for a
printer at address 11.22.33.44:

    lpadmin -p printername -E -v ipp://11.22.33.44/ipp/print -m everywhere




> 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).
>
 The tedious thing was tracking down the deps, between this and net-snmp
"make install" still left me needing to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH and I was
in no mood to track it down :) 
 
> 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.
>
At this point it would be easier to put ssh on the mac send the file there
and print from the mac :) 

 
> Peter
> 
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