Category: Techie stuff

It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally managed to get native Avahi support implemented in CUPS. This means that CUPS will now advertise its printers using Bonjour. The CUPS dnssd backend can also discover Bonjour print queues. At the moment it isn’t automatically discovered by CUPS, but I hope to get that part…

In an ideal world there would be no need to choose which printer driver to use, and all printers would use the same driver (or, say, one driver for raster images, and another for vectors).  That’s the goal of IPP Everywhere.  In the mean while, there is often a choice of different drivers to use. …

I’ve mentioned before about how the automatic printer driver installation feature in Fedora 13 requires IEEE 1284 Device IDs to be provided by both printer devices and printer drivers so they can be matched together.  I gave a presentation about this at the OpenPrinting Summit in April. Since then I’ve been helping Ricoh fix the…

For those of you interested in participating in system-config-printer development, I invite you to join the new mailing list.