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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
From my position as a small business, very small, I hate it when I have to print. It means two things: I'm using up expensive ink and then I'm going to have to deliver what I print. It's like every print costs me $5. Double the money, double the pollution. I'd rather just email a PDF.
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Originally posted by royce View PostI'm not sure what the state of network scanners is in Linux though.
For a great overview, see this talk from LPC 2020: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/...ne-airscan.pdf
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Originally posted by royce View Post
Best thing I ever did was to get a decent, multifunction b/w laser printer/scanner unit (Brother DCP-7055). Toner is very cheap, does not dry and laser prints very quickly. If I were to replace it I'd basically like a network-enabled version of it. I'm not sure what the state of network scanners is in Linux though.
That's all I've ever needed so I'm going to look into that.
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Originally posted by nranger View Post
If CUPS lives, a raspberry pi can easily turn that Brother into a network printer.
The XP-610 has built-in wireless, but I was uncomfortable with Google Cloud Print (EoL scheduled 12/31/2020) and Epson Cloud so I disabled both of them.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
From my position as a small business, very small, I hate it when I have to print. It means two things: I'm using up expensive ink and then I'm going to have to deliver what I print. It's like every print costs me $5. Double the money, double the pollution. I'd rather just email a PDF.
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Originally posted by royce View PostI'm not sure what the state of network scanners is in Linux though.
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But it seems, that Michael R. Sweet creates still software based on CUPS.
For example, he is active working on PAPPL
PAPPL - Printer Application Framework. Contribute to michaelrsweet/pappl development by creating an account on GitHub.
As he wrote, "PAPPL is a simple C-based framework/library for developing CUPS Printer Applications".
The question is, what happens, if the current CUPS isn't good enough for PAPPL. If CUPS needs improvements, that PAPPL needs to use. Will he then further develop on CUPS?Last edited by theuserbl; 13 October 2020, 10:03 AM.
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