Package: cups-filters-core-drivers Version: 1.13.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch upstream
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Originally, my intention was to point out a couple of punctuation errors and suggest some small changes. But I got carried away. driverless generates PPD files for printers which are designed for driverless printing (currently IPP Everywhere and AirPrint printers) by polling capability information from the printers via IPP. It can be called for listing suitable printers in the network or for actually generating the PPD. It can also be called by CUPS when CUPS is listing available PPDs/drivers or creating print queues, making the setup of driverless printers with printer setup tools transparently working. driverless is placed in /usr/lib/cups/driver/ for listing available driverless-capable printers and generating PPDs for them. It should also be put in /usr/lib/cups/backend/ (preferably by a symbolic link) to list IPP device URIs for suitable printers. Printer setup tools like system-config-printer, the CUPS web interface at http://localhost:631 and CUPS' command line utilities can use driverless with CUPS to list available driverless-capable printers, determine their IPP device URIs and generate PPDs for them. The printers will be automatically and correctly set up for driverless printing. Note that driverless printing requires IPP communication with the printer. A second symbolic link to /usr/lib/cups/driver/driverless from /usr/bin/ allows driverless to be called directly by a user. SEE ALSO cups-browsed(8), ippfind(1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rationale for changes ===================== 1. Replace "Apple Raster" with "AirPrint". "IPP Everywhere" is an offical printer certification. "AirPrint" corresponds. 2. The first sentence in the second paragraph is a little long. I have split it up, hopefully without losing any of its content or sense. 3. Is "legacy" needed? 4. SEE ALSO. driverless uses ippfind. Regards, -- Brian.
