Printer driver deprecation

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CUPS driver for Canon CARPS printers

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Printer driver deprecation #21

Closed HeLiBloks closed 3 months ago

HeLiBloks commented 3 months ago

I had to do the following to get cups to load the ppd file and be able to print on Fedora 40

cp ppd/mf5750.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/
lpadmin -p MF5750 -E -v 'usb://Canon/MF5750?serial=216271239260&interface=1' -m mf5750.ppd
lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.

ondrej-zary commented 3 months ago

CUPS without drivers is useless - like many other Apple products. It's time to fork CUPS to continue Linux printing support. Debian will probably have patches to keep drivers working.