I would like the following version to replace previous offering:
USB connected printers and driverless printing ---------------------------------------------- The Release Notes for Debian 10 briefly describe the driverless printing situation implemented via CUPS and cups-filters. [1] The changes apply to modern printers connected by ethernet or wireless. [2] The release of Debian 11 sees the inclusion of ipp-usb in the stable archive. ipp-usb is recommended by cups-daemon and utilises the vendor-neutral IPP-over-USB protocol that is supported by many modern printers. ipp-usb allows a USB device to be seen and treated as a network device. The outcome is that driverless printing is extended to include USB connected printers. The specifics are outlined on the wiki. [3] The systemd service file included in the ipp-usb package starts the ipp-usb daemon when a printer is plugged in. A USB connected printer now becomes available to print to, either by being auto-setup by cups-browsed, which is the default technique, or being manually installed [4] with a local driverless print queue. The use of vendor printer drivers, free and non-free, becomes unnecessary with networked and USB connected printers. [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-printing [2] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSQuickPrintQueues [3] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting. [4] https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting Cheers, Brian.
