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surely a glorious OS like osx would not be without support for hardware that linux supports? when will it be year of osx desktop?
OSX has literally always been supported only on very limited hardware so how would it support anything else?
Isn't cups a de facto apple project? What's the VM getting you?
Isn't cups a de facto apple project? What's the VM getting you?
See here for the details: https://openprinting.github.io/achievements/#cups-upstream-h...
Okay, this is reasonably genius. I have quite a few USB devices lying around that are either old enough or were niche enough that they don't work on modern _anything_, even Linux. One of them is a GameBoy Advance flash cartridge.
I have an old Epson MX80 dot-matrix printer in the closet, have thought about getting a Raspberry Pi and setting that up so we can wirelessly print to it. But... who would really want that?
Very easy implementation as it essentially it just forwards the data to the printer. Since it's a raw interface you need the proper driver, but luckily Epson provides a Windows 10 driver for the Epson MX-80 (!) [1] CUPS doesn't have driver for the MX-80 but it has a number of generic Epson drivers and my guess is that one of those will work.
The most difficult part is probably the parallel interface (unless you have a printer with a serial interface in which case it will be much easier)
[1] https://epson.com/Support/Printers/Impact-Printers/MX-Series...
If you are using an LLM, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to just have the LLM find the relevant CUPS driver decompile or just capture the USB traffic, and rewrite it in Go or something native? (No need to deal with the system printing framework, the goal was just an app that accepts JPEG input.)
Thank you, loved this and it made me "duh!". I have an old-ish Samsung laser printer that works perfectly and a Linux file server at home and the printer no longer supports AirPrint. I never thought about using the Linux box as an AirPrint server! This will free me from all the odd print requests from my kids! (probably)
Isn't cups a de facto apple project? What's the VM getting you?
No. Most cups changes nowadays happen in https://github.com/openprinting/cups?tab=readme-ov-file See here for the details: https://openprinting.github.io/achievements/#cups-upstream-h...
But this driver is older than OpenPrinting's fork from Apple CUPS.