I’ve noticed a general sentiment that printing on Linux is (or at least was) extremely cumbersome and difficult. Why is that?

  • FubarberryEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Recently ran into an issue with Endeavour OS where the built in printer program would give errors when trying to add my network ecotank printer.

    Tried using cups terminal and it worked the first time, and is still working weeks later.

    So some of the GUI printer apps that distros ship with have issues apparently, but I don’t know the extent of it.

    • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      I’ve also had struggles with arch with printing, more so than debian-based distros. EndeavourOS is where i did the most troubleshooting, but its also a problem on my manjaro install (whicj ill move to endeavour… Someday) But learning how to use cups directly was worth it.

      Currently, printing via GUI is like 5ppm and very low dpi so… Not great. But at least I can print for the casual use cases out of the box and could work out a terminal solution if I needed to in the meantime.

      I don’t print much so haven’t put time into getting things working better for bigger jobs, but printing is definitely going to be a more hit/miss experience with arch. Its looking like better GUI experience for my specific model will require a driver from the AUR or scripting the Debian install from brothers drivers site. But my model is apparently not as widely used and just hasn’t gotten as much community support I guess