Printing to Develop Ineo 284e network printer

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1

The system find the printer but tells me that additional software is required. Software opens, but it remains searching for ever.

I tried using the ppd from their site to no avail. I tried using a generic PCL5e driver with the same issue.

Any ideas?

2

I made some progress. Managed to print, but had to:

  1. Discover the IP address of the printer instead of using the address discovered automatically.
  2. Choosing a Generic PCL5e driver.

I printed a test page and it did print, but the right line was cut off. There seems to be an offset, the left margin being slightly wider than than the right one.

Any ideas?

3

According to https://www.develop-uk.co.uk/products/mobile-printing/apple-airprint.html the 284e supports A3 B&W printing using Apple Airprint. This should support “driverless” IPP printing from Fedora 42.

4

I couldn’t add the printer manually with the IPP printing protocol. I managed to do so from the command line using its IP address with the command:
sudo lpadmin -p myprintername -E -v ipp://10.1.2.3/ipp/print -m everywhere
Changing myprintername to the name I desired and the IP address to the one I had discovered.