Printing on linux is shockingly simple

The Water Cooler
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I was curious for a long time, and I finally tried connecting my laptop to our printer. I heard many good things about printer support on linux, so I was really curious… And I’m positively and genuinely shocked by how nice and simple it is! My mom always had trouble with connecting it to her Windows laptops, so I didn’t expected it working immediately for me.

The only problem I really had was finding a way to print a normal text file, but installing LibreOffice solved it.

Posting this, since I wanted to share some positivity :slight_smile:

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No problem for Me either… Fedora and an old Epson WF-3640… :clap:

:fedora: + :printer: = :slightly_smiling_face:

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I add printers the fun way through http://localhost:631/admin and ipp://192.168.1.164/ipp/print :stuck_out_tongue:

Windows auto-detects it annoyingly; I thought I disabled all the printer broadcast stuff in settings but Windows can still easily see it; I’m kind of curious if that same IPP address format works but I usually save printer set-up for when I need to print something asap :stuck_out_tongue:

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Printing onto thin plates of wood?

lol.

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That’s my favourite activity🥰

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Come and do Fedora docs, or at least translate them. Not quite typography and careful font selection, kerning and hinting… but close enough to scratch an itch.

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How did you do it?

I had to install some Samsung software that had been bought by HP (because they own alll Samsung branded printers now).

Could I have used some default way?

And please to join up with Docs Team, you write really well.

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AFAIK the printer needs to support driverless setup (or whatever it was called). We have some old HP one. Maybe your model doesn’t support it?

And about docs, i have a couple of itches to scratch here and there, but I’m waiting for Forgejo migration to be done before I will do anything. Also, thanks for complement! I’m dyslexic, and to top it off with English being my second language, writing is pretty difficult for me🙂 So it was very nice to hear.

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You can print a “normal text file” from e.g. GNOME Text Editor. I’ve used that feature just a couple of days ago. It works well.

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Can you share a screenshot? I use Text Editor from GNOME Nightly flatpak remote and couldn’t see such option

EDIT: Okay, now I see this option. I wonder how I couldn’t notice it. Thanks

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This is actually what made me stop distro hopping lol. I have an epson printer that has always been notoriously difficult to print on with every OS I use. Printing and scanning worked like a charm right from the start.

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