It’s been a long time since my laptop could print to any printer, anywhere. Why are ios and Android so limited in their print capabilities? You need the right printer, or the right app… I feel like it’s 1992 all over again. Is there some technical limitation I don’t know about?
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Printers are the Satan of everyday IT infrastructure. Every manufacturer slips in some proprietary BS that only works with their specific driver, then that driver doesn’t make it into Android or iOS versions because they can’t afford to have half a gig of just printer drivers. Even on PC you usually have to install the driver from a CD/manufacturer website to properly use the printer, or if you’re lucky the printer manufacturer sent the driver to Microsoft so Win10 can automatically download it.
On android you have to manually install the printer driver, which due to how mobile OSes work, is always done through an app.
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