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ziomarco

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From: italy

Registered: 2018-09-09

Posts: 31

the future for splix with cups 3.0

Hello everyone!
I'm an happy user of an old printer Samsung SCX4224 wich doesn't support  IPP Everywhere / driverless printing and needs splix  to work.
For now cups alerts me with: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS
What will happen with cups 3.0?
how can i continue using it as network printer?

Last edited by ziomarco (2025-05-22 13:03:24)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,141

Re: the future for splix with cups 3.0

That driver is actively maintained by the actual CUPS maintainers so I'd strongly assume they are going to develop something compatible when the time arrives. They way they are doing that for other stuff that's currently in a similar situation is via a "printer application", which will implement the driver and then talk the IPP protocol to CUPS 3.0 and to applications. See also the issue where this is being discussed (which is listed as part of that warning message) and the sample applications they already have for a variety of drivers: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-sharing/issues/4 and https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-sh … 1386031548

I'd also assume CUPS 3 to still be somewhat far off. -- seems scheduled for August/September https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/wiki/CUPS-3.0 ... I could also see Arch shipping both for a while as there are going to be lots of applications that still expect the older lib.

tl:dr keep calm, carry on.

Ok on actually reading the drivers github README: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/splix -- the last sentence of the readme suggests this being discontinued, but seeing as there was some work on it as recently as 6 months ago you might still have chances. You might want to raise corresponding concerns there.

On actually reading the literally linked post of implemented "printer applications". splix will be contained in the ghostscript printer application: https://www.openprinting.org/driver/splix/

Last edited by V1del (2025-05-22 18:45:02)

ziomarco

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From: italy

Registered: 2018-09-09

Posts: 31

Re: the future for splix with cups 3.0

thank you V1del,
your informations are valuable, you have reassured me