installing Printer
I installed BlendOS, and all went smoothly until I tried to install a Brother printer. Blend OS could see the printer, but wouldn’t load it. I attempted to find a printer driver for my model, but couldn’t. For me, this was a deal breaker. So I, possibly rashly, deleted Blend for another distro. I have been thinking about this, and wonder whether attempting to load it through another container, such as Ubuntu, would offer the driver I need since I know that Ubuntu can connect to my printer easily. If that worked, would I be able to print from other containers? I hope this makes sense as I don’t fully understand how Blend works. Thank you.
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for a Brother printer, the drivers are either in the AUR, are part of foomatic or gutenprint, or do not exist (go driverless)
in v4 you will be able to install the printer driver sets quite easily
as for printing from the container that is a no as cups cannot run in a container (containers don't have init systems)
Thanks for the quick response! I looked on the ArchLinux website, which mentions PPD files for AirPrint capable printers. Does this mean that ArchLinux can print to an AirPrint capable printer even though AirPrint is an Apple technology?
not that you could even install them
as packages anyway
I am back! Thank you for your help. I have found a driver for my printer listed in the aur repo. My understanding is that Blend is built on Arch Linux. If my understanding is correct, will an aur package work in Blend?
v3 has no way to do this
v4 does
Okay, thanks.
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