I have a brother laser Printer which I use via IPP from my network. It can hold a bunch of pages in RAM and Print them once the other (it can Print 3 in a row) are finished.
Now what does any propriatery printing service do?
They feed ONE PAGE AT A TIME, so my printer starts printing, then it starts cooling off, but then it has to HEAT UP AGAIN FOR FUCKS SAKE, and that every time.
Also if I just print via CUPS from my Linux machine, its like 5 times faster.
And I just don’t understand how my 15€ thin client from over 20 years ago can do more and better than my 1200€ iPad.
Just a reminder why I keep using Linux.
Android has a cups client app, so you can use that instead of Google’s printing service.
It’s on f-droid.
Yeah! CUPS is great. I just connected my Brother printer to it and everything Just Works.
i used to have an old brother laser printer that lasted for almost 15 years and the replacement that i got lasted less than 2; it makes me wonder if it was intentional.
bump. my brother multifunction worked flawlessly. scanner, printer…I assume the fax would work if it was hooked up.
Mac is 85-90%
Windows, I just completely uninstall/reinstall for each use because it is more reliable than trying to use it otherwise.
oddly enough, the Canon I got will only work properly from the phone, which pisses me off everyday. that thing is a POS.
I used to sell printers. Canon printers, more than any other brand, are purely just a vehicle to sell photo paper, ink, and ink subscriptions. Their laser units are another story, quite capable machines (not sure about lifelong reliability), but the inkjets are hot garbage. They have multiple models that cost less to purchase than the replacement cartridges… With the sort of build quality you might expect at that price point. HP, as awful as they are, never stooped quite that low afaik. Brother laser is the way to go, always.
Edit just to shit even harder on Canon, the amount of those printers returned to store was 3x all others put together. Only had one Brother returned in my entire 2 years there, and that was only because of logistics, not the machine itself.
big ol dookie on Canon…💩💩💩
one of the worst technology purchases I ever made.
I bought the laser brother for scan and documents, which is awesome.
but I needed something for photos… found this “highly rated” Canon photo only printer… hot garbage.
At least someone has had good experiences with CUPS lol. cupsd is usually the first thing I uninstall when I install Linux onto a PC since it never works.
Weird, CUPS used to be one of the few software that worked mostly flawlessly out of the box. It works pretty well for me
This has not been my experience … at … all.
Perhaps it would be helpful to discover what exactly doesn’t work for you and fix that, rather than remove CUPS because one time it didn’t work for you seven years ago.
the implication that they only tried it once is childish
Perhaps it would be helpful if people who weren’t interested in discussing in good faith would refrain from posting
How would you suggest I respond in the future?
We have a person, claiming that CUPS doesn’t work and they now uninstall it on every installation.
There is no context, no data, no information that suggests what the issue is, what they tried, when this occurred, on which platform, under which conditions.
In other words, the user was essentially saying “CUPS sux”.
Having used Linux as my main system for over 25 years, that sentiment did not match my own experience, does not help anyone, not me, not the user and not the OP who was trying to solve a problem, let alone anyone else reading along.
I responded accordingly.
I would suggest responding to what they wrote, rather than what they didn’t write or what you imagine they may have written, but that’s just me.
Another good option is to not respond at all.
Inventing a strawman then arguing with it is pointless
I must have done something wrong because the last time I removed cupsd it bricked my Linux Mint install.
Cups is awesome. I have an ancient HP laserjet 1100 connected to an ancient parallel-to-Ethernet adapter, connected to my ancient router. Cups works flawlessly with this setup, Windows never worked.
FYI: CUPS was recently outed as extremely insecure and irrevocably broken by design. So if you’re not actively printing, it’s probably best to uninstall it.
Less FYI more PSA (?)
Link?
So it’s only the cups-browsed service. I wonder if that’s enabled on any distros by default. Will have to check mine tomorrow.
Usually the print service is implemented by the printer manufacturer. Maybe try installing one or both of these apps, I needed them to print, and it worked fine after that:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brother.mfc.mobileconnect
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brother.mfc.brprint
I’m sure there’s some way to use PS or PCL printing from Android too, but that’s probably a lot more effort.
You could print to CUPS from the other devices and potentially bypass all those shenanigans.
Also, CUPS has a PDF printer which saves you from even heating up your printer at all … I haven’t had a printer in my life for over 25 years.
