On Tue 10 Aug 2021 at 16:14:38 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > We need to replace an all-in-one printer-scanner, a HP Deskjet 3054A. > > Based on past experience, I am favoring HP, because AFAIK they mostly > play fair about Libre drivers, and their ink is too expensive but not > insanely so. The HP OfficeJet 8012 seems the most interesting available > at my preferred vendor (LDLC).
Over the years HP has been a stalwart supporter of Linix printing and imaging via HPLIP. However, any *modern* MFD made by HP supports a driverless printing environment such as the one Debian provides. HPLIP is, in fact, redundant with a modern MFD. > As far as I can see, it would be supported through driverless printing > and sane-hpaio. Am I mistaken? You are not mistaken. But not only Does Debian provide driverless printing but it also provides driverless scanning via SANE and, in addition, the sane-airscan package. sane-airscan is in bullseye and in buster-bacports. > The vendor has other models has other models by Epson, Canon and > Brother. I remember these brands have caused trouble to users of Libre > software, unlike HP who develops its own Libre tools. I want to buy > according to my ethics. Has one of them turned its policy around enough > to warrant considering it? Whatever has been said above also applies to to any other *modern* device from these vendors. > Is there any other remark you may want to do about it? CUPS will cease to support drivers and PPDs in the coming years. Users may as well come to terms with driverless printing. HPLIP and other vendor drivers will not have any place in a future CUPS. -- Brian.
