On Tue 10 Aug 2021 at 20:57:56 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > 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.
Perhaps cups-browsed migt help you. -- Brian.
