Perhaps I am just not aware, but why is there so much innovation in 3D printers, mobile phones and more, yet we somehow have missed the good old 2D printing industry entirely? How on earth do we not have a way figured out to have an easily connected printer on networks, or USB, or ad hoc wifi without blasted drivers?
Now I’m no printer expert, but it seems silly why network printing is not just over HTTP. Honestly, we have computers with standardized protocols that can send messages to others. Why on earth do we still have these archaic printer protocols? Why don’t we build a network printer that doesn’t suck. All it does is spin up a web-server on a port and IP, you can see the log output, it is easily debugged, and we get rid of this black magic shit. There is no reason to have massive service businesses where nobody can understand why the heck the printing failed, or the connection is moot on the network. Why is IPP not the default? This is all confusing to me.
The 2D printing industry and black magic
Perhaps I am just not aware, but why is there so much innovation in 3D printers, mobile phones and more, yet we somehow have missed the good old 2D printing industry entirely? How on earth do we not have a way figured out to have an easily connected printer on networks, or USB, or ad hoc wifi without blasted drivers?
Now I’m no printer expert, but it seems silly why network printing is not just over HTTP. Honestly, we have computers with standardized protocols that can send messages to others. Why on earth do we still have these archaic printer protocols? Why don’t we build a network printer that doesn’t suck. All it does is spin up a web-server on a port and IP, you can see the log output, it is easily debugged, and we get rid of this black magic shit. There is no reason to have massive service businesses where nobody can understand why the heck the printing failed, or the connection is moot on the network. Why is IPP not the default? This is all confusing to me.
Posted 12 years ago