<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Brian,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 at 18:26, Brian <<a href="mailto:claremont102@gmail.com">claremont102@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I do mean that page. You do not have a modern printer. It's HPLIP's<br>
drivers and PPDs for you. Nothing wrong with that, it's your only<br>
choice. But note - CUPS will cease to support drivers and PPDs in the<br>
near futre.<br></blockquote><div>Thank you for your patience. I have a friend with a much older printer, that I had to use Ubuntu 14.04 to get printing. <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Don't panic! Legacy printer users will be catered for in another way.<br></blockquote><div>Interesting. And a relief :) What way will that be?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A user with a modern printer is advised to use driverless printing.<br>
Ubuntu 21.04 is designed to give a user with any vendor modern device<br>
just that, automatically, over the network and on USB.<br></blockquote><div>Wow!<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The days of drivers and PPDs are numbered.<br></blockquote>OK. And CUPS will still be around?<br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div>TIA,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>