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    Completely untrue nowadays... (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by 0x4E4F to c/[email protected]
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    They work better in Linux than Windows, not to mention backwards compatibility.

    EDIT: I may be wrong about newest printer models, 2020 and above.

    EDIT2: Hardware problems are an entirely different issue.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    I thought I saw that Mac has the same CUPS print service/printer manager that Linux uses? In fact it seems like apple developed it. I think that helps enormously with standardizing printer configs. https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I think it does; it's just automated installation of new printers that's an issue as far as I know. Not 100% sure since I'm a software developer rather than an IT support person, so I never deal with stuff like that. (I also haven't used a Mac in 7 years)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Enterprise grade MFD printers often have a lot of features that don't get detected/mapped automatically, such as finishing options like staples and folding, as well as color management. I'm not a printer expert, I try to avoid them when possible, but I know that mass deploying those specific configurations in a safe and sane way seems basically impossible.

    On the Fedora-based Linux machines, however, all of that seems to just pop in automatically, so I don't think it's a CUPS problem.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    If you need one, staple by hand. If you need 30, make 29 copies with staple, and while they're printing, staple the one by hand.

    Or at least that's what I would have said in my IT days lol.

    [–] captain_aggravated 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    It's my understanding that CUPS was developed at Apple.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Apple bought CUPS then did little with it, causing the main dev to leave and fork the project.