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by godzillabrennus 921 days ago
I know some folks out there bragging about saving on toner by still repairing an HP LaserJet 2… I can’t see this being an easy transition…
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Those LaserJets often already do support LPR and IPP. Some of this is just further pushing tech that's been in Windows since Windows 2000 and deprecating the old stuff.
As long as you can send PS, PCL or PDF to the printer via some "standard" network protocol (IPP, LPD, LPR, JetDirect), the "driver" will just be a PDL file and won't need any special privileges.
Easy enough to setup a raspberry pi as a ipp server