Completely untrue nowadays...

I swear my 3d printer is more reliable than my paper printer.

Huh? Linux and printers are the best

CUPS is absolutely amazing compared to windows printer drivers which had whole ass critical CVEs several times already.

Even Apple uses CUPS

With cups it's pretty much painless on linux form me, though some distros have a very restrictive firewall configuration out of the box, so you have to whitelist it before using. Not too complicated, but can be very frustrating for new users who never touched a firewall before.

Printers fucking suck.

My printer used to integrate perfectly with windows 11. I was using some Ancient driver I found on some internet archive. windows updater found a new drive, now it's a mess of different UIs to print or scan shit

A Linux meme that's somewhat critical of Linux?

I wonder what the comments will be like....

Brother printer initialised in a couple of clicks in Arch, took 10 minutes to do it in Windows.

Printers are pretty plug'n'play these days, at least until something technical goes wrong. Getting exactly what you want on paper can be pretty tough, though. I wrote an entire printing stack from scratch for an embedded system, but that was for a very specific set of models from a single manufacturer. It actually worked every time, especially when there were errors and warnings, but it took actual effort.

Brothers linux script still working great for me and my aging printers

The printers are probably running Linux too.

Here's a better meme.

HP printers:

I would only think them to work better on Linux because the software you're using isn't made by the printer company. Their software sucks. The hardware sucks, too. They're made to be shit because a perfect printer isn't profitable.

My printer has to go through like 5 power cycles for it to even detect its ink cartridges. I guess thats what i get for taking the ewaste printer from the office

On linux i was able to setup my hp laserjet no problem, cups recognised it just fine; the problem is with the integrated scanner, SANE sees that there is some sort of scanner but fails to talk to it, i have windows 10 installed on a usb key essentially only to use the scanner

Those edits really encapsulate the Lemmy experience LMAO

I do freelance sysadmin work and Macs are actually the hardest to mass deploy printer configurations to.

Has anyone had luck or experience with using IPP for printing from Linux? A standard networking protocol for printing sounds like it should make a lot of these problems mute.

lp0 is still on fire tho...

Stop printing.

Honestly who NEEDS a printer anymore? We've moved on from printing out driving directions from MapQuest and burning our own DVD collections. We should ditch home printers and only use online printing services whenever you want something physical so it's made nicely by someone who knows what they're doing.

I had to start the scanner tool from the command line, I felt like a hacker but it did usually work on Linux.

Yeah I switched to LMDE a couple months ago and I plugged in my printer for the first time but long ago. I was worried it wouldn't work at first but it started printing right away!

I've found Mac OS is by far the best OS for getting printers to work tbh

No joke, printing is like the #1 thing I like most about switching from Windows to Linux. I still get errors about the bypass tray every time I try to print from Windows. I'M NOT USING THE BYPASS TRAY!

Hardware problems are an entirely different issue.

Literally the biggest issue

I never had any problems printing or scanning on Linux. Meanwhile my dad's PC bluescreens from opening the driver UI.

I used to have a MacBook Pro and the printer worked perfectly when I printed from it, whereas my windows PC always had issues.

I stopped using paper and suddenly my printer problems went away

Printers suck so bad that are responsible of starting free software (well part of it). Thanks printers for sucking bad.

Context:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.en.html

WTF? Is this about using inkjets on WiFi?

That was the last thing that kept me dual booting. Eventually, I realized that my printer wasn't worth using on any OS so I wasn't losing anything by going all-in.

On Pop my networked printers were just there without me needing to do anything.

I got an amazing old HP office laser jet, a 1320n. Would Linux be able to print from it relatively easily? I had to work pretty hard to get it on W10.

Just don't buy HP/Epson/Canon.

Buy a Brother Laserprinter, and never worry again for the rest of your life.

My scanner/printer works flawlessly ij Linux. It's fantastic. I cannot get it to work in windows, but no big deal I rarely use windows anyways.

But it is amusing that it simply will not work in windows.

And this printer is from 2023.