Le 10/08/2021 à 20:54, Brian a écrit :
> On Tue 10 Aug 2021 at 19:01:30 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:44:18 +0100
>> Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Brian,
>>
>>> Thank you for the response, Brad. I see the point about applet verus web
>> NP, Brian.
>>
>>> page. To my mind it is not a showstopper.
>> Nor to me. It's simply convenient.
>>
>>> Enjoy the applet while you can.
>> Probably when I get a new machine. Which should be some years away -
>> I've only had this one about a year. Unless, of course, I'm forced to
>> remove HPLIP by some upgrade or other in the mean time.
> As I've said previously, a future CUPS will not support printer drivers.
> HPLIP provides printer drivers. There will be little point in Debian
> packaging HPLIP, wouldn't you agree? But this is a few years away.
>
> Stick with what you have (it works) but think about getting ahead of the
> game.
>
We'll see at that time, especially since what I read from
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting makes it unable to handle
the cases where you must use a print serer or the one where you're not
on the same network as the printer.
