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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 22:03:05 JST 翠星石

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   • arihi
   @tyil @arh Printing and scanning is broken on all systems, but GNU/Linux-libre happens to handle printing and scanning the best.
   
   It depends a lot on if the printer support IPP or postscript or only supports a proprietary printing protocol.
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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 22:03:08 JST tyil

     • arihi

     @arh@blackstar.cafe I don't have a printer anymore that I could test it with, sadly. When I did, I used cups on Debian and Gentoo, and on both it worked like a charm on both distros. I would expect it hasn't gotten any worse, but it may depend on the kind/brand of printer you got perhaps? I always got relatively cheap second-hand printers, so relatively old machines.