mastodon 4.7.3Co-founder and lead of #OpenPrinting (since 2001), introduced CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft, with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, workshops) made the other distros switch to CUPS, 2006-2025 at Canonical, 2025-2026 funded by Sovereign Tech Fund, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, fellow of the Linux Foundation. Does everything to make printing just work!
Here is another testimonial of my work at OpenPrinting!
Nick from @thelinuxexperiment
has posted a video about the desktop software he uses for his day-to-day tasks on his Linux machine and at 19:24 min he tells how easy it was to use his HP multi-function printer on Linux with the KDE desktop and that, despite he considers printers "terrible", they always worked for him under Linux, while under Windows it was a nightmare.
@duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place
Herzog von Deutschland,
that is a bug. Especially these comment fields, description and location, should accept UTF-8 text, as many people want to fill them in their language, even worse for those who speak Greek, Hindi, ... (In German one can still work around with "Mein Buero", but this also only if one gets a clear error message so that one knows that the problem is the non-ASCII character in this field).
So please report a bug on
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/
@itisiboller@infosec.exchange @duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place
Und wenn der Bug dann gefixed ist, dann kannst du natürlich auch "Scheiße" in das "Description"-Feld schreiben, aber dann solttest Du wirklich darüber nachdenken, ob Du dir besser einen anderen Drucker (z. B. mit weniger Cartridge-DRM) anschaffen solltest ...
The Linux Foundation got accepted as GSoC mentoring organization this year, so we from OpenPrinting will also mentor again!
We have amazing project opportunities on tap!
https://github.com/LinuxFoundationGSoC/ProjectIdeas/wiki/GSoC-2026-OpenPrinting
@ernmander@squatch.online @linuxflower@fosstodon.org
@AKernelPanic@fosstodon.org I liked your little article a lot! Nice reminder of good old times ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBo
And it is always great to meet you, @linuxflower@fosstodon.org on the conferences!
Me, the long-time Ubuntu and Thunderbird user ...
@dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place @duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place
CUPS ist ja "Common Unix Printing System". Damit ist das Problem hier, dass die Amerikaner den Deutschen beim Betriebssystem-erstellen zuvor gekommen sind. Sonst hätte es Ünix geheissen und dann hätten wir auch CÜPS und es wäre von Anfang an auch an UTF-8 für Description und Location gedacht worden.
Beim drucken von Textdateien wurde übrigens schon viele Jahre UTF-8 unterstützt.
@sjvn@mastodon.social Reminds me to back in the early 90s, when I had my first 80386 with MS DoS (MicroSoft Denial of Service, 4.0?) and I had to add these lines, too, so that all the RAM got used.
Well different nowadays where you just boot from a Linux USB stick (Ubuntu, Fedora, ...) and everything gets set up to just work ...
@duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place
Thanks for the bug report.
It is a bug in CUPS, as, with CUPS generally accepting and preferring UTF-8, it should also accept UTF-8 in the "Description" and "Location" fields.
@Jill_linuxgirl@mast.linuxgamecast.com
And at 01:00:52 you see that they really do it 100% open source now, after my hint of that PhotoPea is NOT 100% Open Source, Ryan has switched to the GIMP!!! Congratulations!!
It is always fun every Wed to stay up 2am-3am (CEST) for the live production, and help Ryan, Jill, and Zeb a bit ...
Lasers are better in several points:
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@lgm@post.lurk.org Will this printer be on display on the event? Does it support driverless IPP printing, so that one can print from Linux or from a phone to it?
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Inkjets have also their advantages:
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@tuxfanmatze@social.tchncs.de Thank you very much!