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Note that this Printer Application cannot be put into a Snap and has to be classically installed instead, as otherwise it would not have access to your classically installed driver. It is a part of the pappl-retrofit package and it makes drivers classically installed for the system’s classically installed CUPS available in a Printer Application and this way for the CUPS Snap and any non-driver-supporting CUPS in the future. If your printer still needs a driver which does not exist in any of the above-mentioned Printer Applications but is available for classic installation on your system (RPM or DEB packages, source code, …) you can make your driver available in a Printer Application by installing the Legacy Printer Application. Your driver not in a Printer Application? - The Legacy Printer Application

For non-free-licensed PPD files simply install the PostScript Printer Application and use the “Add PPD file” functionality in its web interface to install your printers’s PPD locally. If you have manufacturer-supplied PostScript printer PPDs which are published under a free software license but not included in the PostScript Printer Application, please report an issue. If there are any free software CUPS printer drivers left which are not in these Printer Applications and you think it would be great to have it there, please report an issue on the Ghostscript Printer Application.

LPrint ( Snap Store): Supports Dymo LabelWriter and Zebra ZPL label printers, with all label-printer-typical options: Label modes, tear-off offsets, media tracking, media top offset, print darkness, resolution, roll selection, speed, … Note that this is of the pre-PAPPL era and so does not use PAPPL with all its features.

In addition, there is LPrint which supports many label printers (more label printer models supported by the Ghostscript Printer Application):

It contains all the printer for which there is no separate Snap. Ghostscript Printer Application ( Snap Store): Printer Application with Ghostscript and many other drivers, for practically all free-software-supported printers which are not PostScript and not supported by HPLIP or Gutenprint.Gutenprint Printer Application ( Snap Store): High quality output and a lot of knobs to adjust, especially for Epson and Canon inkjets but also for many other printers, for example dye sublimation photo printers, in a Printer Application Snap.Installing HP’s proprietary plugin (needed for a few printers) into the Snap is supported and easily done with the web interface, and it gets automatically updated. Supports nearly every HP printer ever made. HPLIP Printer Application ( Snap Store): HPLIP in a Printer Application Snap.User can add PPD files if the needed one is not included or outdated. PostScript Printer Application ( Snap Store): Printer Application Snap for PostScript printers which are supported by the manufacturer’s PPD files.There are four Printer Applications with nearly every driver in the Snap Store: Now we are an important step closer to using the CUPS Snap as the standard printing system and generally to use a CUPS which does not support PPDs and printers drivers (like 3.x): All free software printer drivers which are available in Debian packages (for Debian and Ubuntu) are now also available in Printer Application Snaps, so with the CUPS Snap and any future CUPS version there is no loss of printer support. Practically all free printer drivers in Printer Applications We will start looking around for candidates and pre-selecting soon. Now we have much more flexibility in defining projects and in selecting candidates, so much better chances in getting our projects done and finding more long-term contributors.Īny suggestions for GSoC projects are welcome. From 2022 on the period can be extended to 22 weeks on agreement between mentor and contrbutor, should there be some interruptions like exams, trips, sickness, different dates of mid-year break, … This gives more people the chance to be able to participate. The organizations can select from these two sizes for each project idea they offer.Ĭoding period flexibility: Before, there was a fixed time period of ~3 months in which the projects had to be done, also with fixed dates for the 2 or 3 evaluations. Two project sizes: 16 GSoCs with ~350-hour projects, then one with ~175-hour ptojects, some tasks fit better into one size others into the other, no one-size-fits-all.

On November 5 the virtual Mentor Summit of GSoC 2021 has taken place and there the organization team of the GSoCs at Google has announced that we will have a GSoC again in 2022!īut this time, for the 18th year, there will be several changes:Ĭontributors, not only students: From now on it is not required any more to be a university/college student any more to code for GSoC.