When I run CUPS 'add printer' with a new (to the network) Laserjet
M15W I see four possible printers to add:-

HP LaserJet M15w (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M15w (HP LaserJet M14-M17)

So which one should I choose? Does it matter?

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On Feb 12, 2025, Chris Green wrote:

When I run CUPS 'add printer' with a new (to the network) Laserjet
M15W I see four possible printers to add:-

HP LaserJet M15w (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M15w (HP LaserJet M14-M17)

So which one should I choose? Does it matter?

It might matter -- I would imagine that it's a case of
"zeroconf/bonjour/avahi" duplicating the "driver-needed" and
"driverless" options that represent "standard" IPP.

There's not enough information here to tell you which one is "correct"
to pick. In my case, the zeroconf ones never work (but that's because
the printer implemented it wrong). I avoid the "detected" printers for
that reason, and usually select the "Other: Network Printer(IPP)" option
near the bottom.


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Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:

When I run CUPS 'add printer' with a new (to the network) Laserjet
M15W I see four possible printers to add:-

HP LaserJet M15w (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17)
HP LaserJet M15w (HP LaserJet M14-M17)

So which one should I choose? Does it matter?

See <https://wiki.debian.org/Printing>, <https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting> and <https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting>.

None of them really addresses the problem of which of the above to
choose though. It would seem that 'driverless' is the way to go
nowadays and my printer is new enough. However why am I offered two 'driverless' printer options, and for that matter what are the other two?

The other thing that had me really confused for a while was that some
of the printers offered are 'discovered' and these will appear by
themselves without actually adding them using CUPS.

In the end one of the 'discovered' driverless printers seems to be
working OK, though I'm not at all clear why it wouldn't work the
first time round when it would print CUPS test pages but not from any applications. (I raised that in another thread)

Yes, I know, printing is always somewhat difficult to get going.

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