• NateNate60@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Although I don’t own and never will own an HP printer, I’ve found that I’ve never had to install printer drivers on Linux. Sometimes the printer is not automatically found or it gets forgotten and needs to be re-added, but other than that it really requires no setup at all. I’m not sure if this experience is common.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve had to grab PPDs for the printer system at work, but generally nowadays printers do tend to work with the default system.

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      1 year ago

      I just bought a new brother printer. I plugged it into ethernet, and it immediately showed up in simple-scan/print dialogs on my old-ass Fedora laptop. It just works.

      Simple Scan even supports running the scan tray and there are a ton of options in the print dialog, too.

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      Only true if the printer supports IPP Everywhere or one of the offshoots. Otherwise you need drivers. Sometimes you still need drivers for ink level reporting (glaring at the HP printer in the corner of my room).