Polish printing experience

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Polish printing experience #19

Open probonopd opened 3 years ago

probonopd commented 3 years ago

Polish CUPS/IPP/AirPrint experience

We have enabled CUPS and can seemingly print to a fully autodetected IPP printer without doing anything. However, at least from the Qt print dialogs, we cannot even switch from color to b/w?

Is there a good graphical CUPS configuration tool in Qt so we can replace system-config-printer?
system-config-printer and avahi-daemon are installed but the former does not show printers on the network under "network printers" yet, why?

We may want

CUPS as an IPP Everywhere Server
CUPS as an IPP Everywhere Client
CUPS as an IPP AirPrint Server

cc'ing the world expert on all things PDF and printing, @KurtPfeifle

probonopd commented 3 years ago

Do we need gutenprint, gutenprint-foomatic,...? Are those still needed? Why are these printers not in CUPS proper?

probonopd commented 3 years ago

This is how it should look like (it looks like this on another FreeBSD system, so it is doable):

Yet this is how it does look at the moment:

/usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf has by default:

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseLocalProtocols dnssd

probonopd commented 3 years ago

TODO: Check other FreeBSD Live Systems, e.g., NomadBSD.

probonopd commented 3 years ago

https://www.cups.org/faq.html#:~:text=A%3A%20If%20you%20have%20setup,changes%20through%20the%20web%20interface.

Q: The CUPS web interface keeps asking me for a password, but I don't have one on this computer. How can I use the web interface?

A: If you have setup your computer to not require a password or have a blank or empty password, then the CUPS web interface will not work for you. CUPS requires a login username and password to allow you to make changes through the web interface.

This has been bugging me since I tried CUPS in the early 2000s for the first time!

How to disable any pasword protection of the web interface on localhost entirely?