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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by AnssiH on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:51AM (#24787087)
> It's too bad there doesn't seem to be much industry support for a common, open driver system.

Isn't Internet Printing Protocol pretty much that, and supported by most printers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol

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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by cosmotic on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:59PM (#24790835)
That may have been the intent but my experience is that I still need to install drivers to get this to either work at all or work with all the features of the device.
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