On 11/03/2016 05:40 PM, Brian Potkin wrote:
There is a new wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/IPPEverywhere
The author would be interested in a review and suggestions for change,
particularly if there are technical mistakes.
Regards,
Brian.
Most of the text is OK, but please replace the paragraph (in section
"Debian CUPS as an IPP Everywhere Client")
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CUPS has a PPD generator for IPP Everywhere printers and a PPD will
automatically be created in /etc/cups/ppd. The PPD is based on the
capabilities of the printer polled over IPP so these and user-settable
options will be shown in the print dialogs of applications and by
command line tools. Without a PPD printing is done with everything on
default; A4, one-sided, normal quality etc.
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by
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cups-browsed has a PPD generator for IPP Everywhere printers and a PPD
will automatically be created in /etc/cups/ppd. The PPD is based on the
capabilities of the printer polled over IPP so these and user-settable
options will be shown in the print dialogs of applications and by
command line tools.
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Note that when an IPP printer is discovered that always a PPD is
generated, if there is an IPP printer with a known PDL (PWG Raster, PDF,
PostScript, PCL) which does not completely fulfill the IPP Everywhere
standard, also a PPD is generated but capabilities about which the
printer does not provide information are filled in with defaults. If
there is no way to generate a PPD (printer has unknown PDL or does not
tell its PDLs), no queue is generated. So no queues without PDLs are
generated for network printers.
cups-browsed also generates local queues for remote CUPS printers but
never uses IPP Everywhere for it, but the fact that one can download the
remote queue's PPD of a CUPS server.
Thanks.
Till
