<story><title>Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/go_native_or_go_home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breadwinner</author><text>Printing at home is so horrible. I have a printer connected to my Wifi router. It changes IP every time I reboot. When it changes IP, Windows can&amp;#x27;t find it. I can give the printer a static IP but how many people know to do this? Wifi has been around for more than 2 decades. Isn&amp;#x27;t that enough time to figure out a solution?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>Ideally your printer advertises itself via Bonjour&amp;#x2F;Avahi&amp;#x2F;SLP or whatevs.  Ideally Windows receives these adverts and connects you to your printer.  One or the other gets it wrong, with monotonous regularity.&lt;p&gt;IPP is print anywhere and it sounds like its been branded &amp;quot;Mopria&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I ditched a thing called HPLIP at home at least five years ago which used to be the cutting edge for Linux printing on HP printers.  The bloke that developed CUPS said it was a good idea and I went for it.&lt;p&gt;Now it just works - always.  It sounds like Windows is catching up, finally.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/go_native_or_go_home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breadwinner</author><text>Printing at home is so horrible. I have a printer connected to my Wifi router. It changes IP every time I reboot. When it changes IP, Windows can&amp;#x27;t find it. I can give the printer a static IP but how many people know to do this? Wifi has been around for more than 2 decades. Isn&amp;#x27;t that enough time to figure out a solution?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamescostian</author><text>It could be your router giving it a new IP address, but the printer itself hopefully has a static MAC address. Check your router settings for static IP assignment, they may be under a section called DHCP. Over there you could give it a static IP address for its current MAC address&lt;p&gt;EDIT: this comment no longer makes sense after the parent comment was edited. It used to be explicitly asking for help and didn&amp;#x27;t mention any solutions like static IPs, nor did it spell out a general remark about how this complexity in consumer electronics is bad</text></comment>