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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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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.