OpenPrinting News - May 2021
OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, GSoC, GSoD, CUPS Snap proxy mode, PostScript Printer Application, CUPS
News and Events
2021
OpenPrinting News - April 2021
OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, GSoC, GSoD, CUPS Snap proxy mode, PostScript Printer Application, CUPS
cups-filters 1.28.8 released!
Bugfix release, to fix several different issues
OpenPrinting News - March 2021
New CUPS home is OpenPrinting, CUPS Snap and PostScript Printer App in Snap Store, Printer setup tools/user experience
OpenPrinting News - February 2021
PostScript Printer Application, Driver retro-fit library, GSoC 2021 project ideas, IPP Scan, CUPS 2.3.3op2
CUPS 2.3.3op2
CUPS 2.3.3op2 is the latest OpenPrinting CUPS security and bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - January 2021
PAPPL 1.0.1, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, LFMP projects ended, CUPS, cups-filters
cups-filters 1.28.7 released!
Bug fix release to remove the support quality check from the “driverless” utility to do not break CUPS’ PPD listing facility and several fixes for generating...
2020
PAPPL v1.0.0
PAPPL is a simple C-based framework/library for developing CUPS Printer Applications, which are the recommended replacement for printer drivers.
OpenPrinting News - December 2020
PAPPL 1.0.0, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD ended, CUPS 2.3.3op1, cups-filters
cups-filters 1.28.6 released!
Bug fix release, especially memory leaks and performance of cups-browsed, but also on the PPD generator and foomatic-rip
CUPS 2.3.3op1
CUPS 2.3.3op1 is the first OpenPrinting CUPS release which fixes many bugs, incorporates common Linux distribution changes, and provides several IPP Everywhe...
OpenPrinting News - November 2020
PAPPL first beta, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD, LFMP, CUPS fork in Debian, cups-filters
PostScript Printer Application
The PostScript Printer Application, first PAPPL-based non-Raster Printer Application, retro-fitting PPD files
OpenPrinting News - October 2020
PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD, LFMP, PAPPL, CUPS fork, cups-filters 1.28.5
cups-filters 1.28.5 released!
Bug fix release for a quick, potential crasher correction in cups-browsed
cups-filters 1.28.4 released!
Bug fix release, mainly to solve CUPS performance problems caused by the IPP fax support of the “driverless” utility
cups-filters 1.28.3 released!
Bug fix release to sove problems caused by an inconsistency between the resolvers for DNS-SD-based URIs
OpenPrinting News - September 2020
GSoC final results, Linux Plumbers recording, GSoD, LFMP, CUPS temporary fork, cups-filters 1.x fork
cups-filters 1.28.2 released!
Bug fix release to mainly fix cups-browsed not shutting down and the driverless utility being slow when listing available printers/faxes
cups-filters 1.28.1 released!
Bug fix release to fix several bugs in the new IPP Fax Out support by the “driverless” utility and also to fix some minor issues
cups-filters 1.28.0 released!
IPPS and IPP Fax Out support in driverless, log file size limitation and more options for cups-browsed, tons of bug fixes
OpenPrinting Microconference on Linux Plumbers Conference 2020
We are on the Plumbers again! And this time with live stream on YouTube!
OpenPrinting News - August 2020
20 years working on printing, Linux Plumbers, GSoC, LFMP, cups-filters 2.0.0 approaching
OpenPrinting News - July 2020
We take comments! Students working in GSoC, GSoD, LFMP; libppd and pclmtoraster in cups-filters
OpenPrinting News - June 2020
Renaming of CUPS Snap, cups-filters 1.27.5, GSoC 2020 coding period has started
cups-filters 1.27.5 released!
Several fixes/improvements on cups-browsed, to correctly determine the CUPS server to attach to, to correctly create queues pointing to a second local CUPS i...
OpenPrinting News - May 2020
7 students for GSoC; LP accepted for Google Season of Docs; OpenPrinting/PWG Meeting; Progress of our projects
OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting 2020 approaching!
The virtual OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting will take place this week, from Tuesday, May 5 to Friday, May 8, Tuesday is OpenPrinting day
OpenPrinting News - April 2020
5 students for GSoC; LP applies for Google Season of Docs; Progress of PAPPL, Driverless Scanning, and CUPS Snap, cups-filters license change
cups-filters 1.27.4 released!
Bug fix release, several minor fixes and especially memory issues in cups-browsed
cups-filters 1.27.3 released!
Bug fix release, fixing Ghostscript-based PDF page counting in foomatic-rip to work with all Ghostscript versions, building libfontembed tests with correct p...
OpenPrinting News - March 2020
Virtual OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, LF Member Summit 2020 cancelled, Linux Foundation accepted as GSoC mentoring organization, PAPPL Printer Application...
cups-filters 1.27.2 released!
Bug fix release, mainly to fix regressions cause by the zero-page-job-support implementation in foomatic-rip, also some code improvements in foomatic-rip and...
pyppd 1.1.0 released!
Vastly reduced memory consumption when extracting a PPD file and incorporated the patches of the Debian/Ubuntu package
OpenPrinting mentoring on the Google Summer of Code 2020!
The Linux Foundation got accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC 2020 and OpenPrinting as one of its sub-organizations will offer a wide variety of...
ippusbxd 1.34 released!
This release is mainly to improve the DNS-SD advertising to equal the one of the network mode of the device and also to advertise its AirScan scanning capabi...
cups-filters 1.27.1 released!
Bug fix release - All filters support zero-page jobs now, option and choice names in PPDs are changed to work around a bug in CUPS when generating IPP attrib...
OpenPrinting News - February 2020
OpenPrinting on LF Member Summit 2020, GSoC 2020 preliminary mentors, Avahi localhost support finally accepted, projects moved to OpenPrinting GitHub, driver...
cups-filters 1.27.0 released!
In this release cups-browsed does not need to know the port number of the CUPS daemon it is attached to any more when it connects via domain socket and many ...
OpenPrinting News - January 2020
Driverless scanning and AirScan, ippusbxd problems solved, cups-filters 1.26.2 released, lots of bug fixes for cups-browsed, GSoC 2020 org application for th...
cups-filters 1.26.2 released!
Bug fix release mainly to make cups-browsed correctly working with a CUPS daemon on a non-standard port, and also for cups-filters smoothly building with GCC...
cups-filters 1.26.1 released!
Bug fix release, to make the cups-browsed-generated local print queues actually work on all OS distributions and to get legacy (not actually designed for dri...
2019
cups-filters 1.26.0 released!
Feature release, cups-browsed and driverless utility use DNS-SD-service-name-based URIs for IPP print queues now, like CUPS does. cups-browsed handles print ...
OpenPrinting News - December 2019
CUPS 2.3.1 and cups-filters 1.26.0 released, lots of improvements and fixes for cups-browsed and the “driverless” utility, OpenPrinting meeting in Mandi, Ind...
OpenPrinting Mini Summit at IIT Mandi, India
On November 9 we had a meeting in India presenting the work of OpenPrinting at one of the universities where our Google Summer of Code students came from
OpenPrinting Microconference on Linux Plumbers Conference 2019
In September we held a Microconference on the Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, now the summary and videos are uploaded to the Linux Plumbers web site
cups-filters 1.25.13 released!
Bug fix release, mainly to solve problems of cups-browsed, mainly for compatibility problems with some printers, leaks, and crashes. Also updated the PPD gen...
cups-filters 1.25.12 released!
Bug fix release, to address a bug of grayscale jobs not printed on PostScript printers when Poppler is used as PDF interpreter, to allow printing on printers...
OpenPrinting - How did this all begin?
A brief history of OpenPrinting
OpenPrinting News - November 2019
The Linux Foundation applied for Google Code-In 2019 but did not get selected, future work of OpenPrinting should concentrate in Printer/Scanner Applications...
OpenPrinting News - October 2019
Linux Plumber’s Conference 2019 with OpenPrinting Micro-Conference, first project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2020, Gutenprint as native Printer Applicat...
OpenPrinting News - September 2019
End of Google Summer of Code 2019, Avahi, OpenPrinting web site work, CUPS 2.3.0 released, cups-filters 1.25.4, cpdb-backend-cups workaround for CUPS bug
Website is up
New website of openprinting is up and running as https://openprinting.github.io. Go check it out!