CUPS 3.0 Continues Being Crafted To Overhaul Linux Printing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CUPS 3.0 Continues Being Crafted To Overhaul Linux Printing

Ever since OpenPrinting took over CUPS upstream from Apple, this widely-used, open-source print server has been back to having a vibrant future. CUPS development ceased at Apple and there wasn't much going on until last year when CUPS founder Michael Sweet and OpenPrinting provided new life to the project...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUPS-3.0-Architecture-Overhaul

[darkbasic]

Wasn't CUPS supposed to be dead and replaced by something else (can't remember the name)?

[tildearrow]

Wasn't CUPS supposed to be dead and replaced by something else (can't remember the name)?

PAPPL

[hamishmb]

Good to see it being updated, it seems to have been fairly stagnant for years and years as far as I can tell, even when Apple developed it.

[Vermilion]

Wasn't CUPS supposed to be dead and replaced by something else (can't remember the name)?

If I understood correctly, PAPPL is a library to create printer applications that are used by CUPS instead of traditional drivers.

[bug77]

My printer doesn't have proper Linux drivers (I thought it did, joke's on me), I wonder if any of these efforts will bring it back to like.

[Davonious]

My printer doesn't have proper Linux drivers (I thought it did, joke's on me), I wonder if any of these efforts will bring it back to like.

A lot of printers in the past 10 years or so have Apple AirPrint support which means it probably supports the Apple Raster format (URF). The newer versions of CUPS have a 'rastertopwg' filter that converts Apple's URF to PWG (Printer Working Group)'s raster. It then sends that conversion directly to the printer, with no vendor-specific filters being involved. Good luck.

[Dukenukemx]

Good to see it being updated, it seems to have been fairly stagnant for years and years as far as I can tell, even when Apple developed it.

Stagnated because Apple abandoned it.

[JEBjames]

Michael

grammar

"Michael Sweet took to Linux Plumbers Conference this week to reaffirm the work on CUPS 3.0 and the near-term 2.5 update."

should probably be

"Michael Sweet took to the Linux Plumbers Conference this week to reaffirm the work on CUPS 3.0 and the near-term 2.5 update."

[ll1025]

When it says the socket API == ipp for both the client and the server-- does this mean that 9100 / RAW printing is being deprecated?

Relying only on IPP seems terribly optimistic, there are many scenarios where that isn't going to cut it. I hope they're only talking about client-server comms.