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Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers (www.which.co.uk)
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[โ€“] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But CUPS is doing the same thing, someone somewhere told me. Using old drivers with it is going to need jumping some extra hoops.

[โ€“] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Not quite. I believe they are just splitting CUPS up. The core is just going to be deal with driverless printers. Other code goes into other projects to become adaptors for old printers to appear as driverless printers that CUPS connects to.