2026 Haiku's printing system state

[phoudoin]

It’s not CUPS, but for old printers, Gutenprint could do it.

For more recent printers, well, there is a third party support for driverless printing IPP Everywhere / AirPrint, see the topic:

[Call for testers] New IPP Everywhere driver & IPP transport for Haiku

Howdy, Just released 0.2.3 (test build) with the following improvements: Transport check added to avoid pairing the driver with Haiku’s raw transports, which can result in garbage text being printed. Transport renamed to “IPP (network or USB)” to make the right transport choice more obvious in the UI. [some-printer] Warning when the wrong transport is not selected. [new-warning] Printer detection window UI polished: “Add printer” button, enabled only with a selection or a typed URL; “S…