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Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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It's hard to hear what Microsoft is saying over the sound of my 15 year-old printers running on CUPS.
lp0 on fireBut CUPS is doing the same thing, someone somewhere told me. Using old drivers with it is going to need jumping some extra hoops.
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.
"The Paper!"
That's also a solution for Windows users if they can't get some future version of Windows to work with the thing. You get a dinky Linux box, like a Raspberry Pi or something, and just set it up as a print server.