Maintaining a printer is hell on any OS. I learned to not own a printer long ago. That's what places that offer printing services are for. And it's not very expensive typically
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My personal printer works flawlessly on Linux, except that it cannot be convinced to print double-sided, no matter how deep I dig into the settings. Boils my blood.
Lmao, so what's the story behind this? I'm on Tumbleweed and the joke here is that the default security/firewall settings are what make printing difficult. Not sure myself—havent had to print anything yet.
What makes it difficult on Arch?
My guess is that it doesn't do much that you don't specifically tell it to, so you have to manually configure printing at some point.
I don't know of anything specifically, just my experience with printers on linux is they either work pretty effortlessly or they're awful and don't seem to work correctly no matter what you do.
I've had some pretty great experience with my Brother multifunction printer / scanner on my Ubuntu server, but never played with Arch.
Best part about Brother's scanner driver is that it literally just runs a shell script you can modify. I have it set up such that I can scan to PDF from the printer & it will programmatically drop it into my samba share, despite the fact that my printer is not expensive enough to come with the "scan to nas" feature in firmware.
I have not had any issues printing on Linux. Although I use ubunutu instead of arch so maybe that's the reason. I also use an Epson printer which I have never had an issue hooking up to any PC over WiFi.
The ONE printer that I have, and arch doesn't have a driver for it, WHY?!?
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I wonder if any printers run Linux... 🤔
Also just because it's related and may not be common knowledge: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/lpr.1.html
I bet they do.
I've learned that the best way to get printers to work universally is to buy a printer with ipp support & force a static IP / DHCP reservation. Seems to universally work with every OS I use in my home with no bloaty drivers.