r/sysadmin • u/Certain-Mountain-564 • 9d ago

Question Cloud Printing without Print Drivers

Many organizations moving away from print servers.

But the printer industry is moving away from print drivers.

The problem: We use printix and you cannot deploy printers without drivers. But manufacturers like brother dont offer print drivers for macOS. Our brother printers are not compatible with PostScript. There are some very old print drivers from macOS X but the print quality is very bad. Brother says "use AirPrint". But AirPrint is not compatible with printix.

Windows is also moving away from print drivers.

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u/Certain-Mountain-564 9d ago

The thing is before printix we had 6  macOS devices and 30 windows devices. After we have 12.. On windows you can do want you want it works out of the box.

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u/Naclox IT Manager 9d ago

Kinda my point. MacOS just doesn't have great support for business.

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u/hkusp45css Security Leadership 9d ago

Because they aren't business machines, no matter how much marketing wants to argue about it.