Driver-Free Printing Comes To Ubuntu 17.04, AirPrint Support

[jabl]

In my experience, printing on Linux is pretty rock solid as long as you first check out https://www.openprinting.org/printers and choose a printer that is reported to work "perfectly".

[starshipeleven]

3 months ago I tried with Fedora 24 and an hp laserjet p1006... didn't work. I didn't go any further since I expected this kind of result. Maybe there is a package I need to install, but at some point, I'd like this kind of devices to work as plug'n'play.

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web...jet_p1006.html

Support level Full
Recommended? Yes

This printer REQUIRES a downloadable driver plug-in, which is required to enable print, fax or scan support. Use hp-setup to install the printer, and to download and install the plug-in. Driver plug-ins are released under a proprietary (non-open) license and are not part of the HPLIP tarball release.

http://www.hplipopensource.com/hplip.../hp_setup.html <-how to operate hp-setup, it will download automatically the plugin if it detects your printer (see the link in "PPD file:" in the screenshots, that's downloading a ppd file from a HP download server).

Install hplip and then do the printer detection with that, same as you would do on Windows with whatever utility they give you. It will open up the hp-setup tool as above without need to use command line.

It's pretty much the same as on windows.

[Creak]

Thanks starshipeleven for these explanations, I'll try that!

[gilboa]

Thanks starshipeleven for these explanations, I'll try that!

Some HP printers require proprietary firmware that can be downloaded and install using hp-plugin (part of hplip package).
I've got a number of HP printers both at work and at home (and around 30-40 Fedora workstations) and it has worked reliably across Fedora releases since Fedora 8'ish.

- Gilboa