+1 For non IPP scenarios, older server versions, and customizing URIs as preferred.
__________ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 13/08/18 a les 18:37, Brian Potkin ha escrit: > Just a couple of observations, which might be useful. > > We read at > > https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups-devel/2017-May/016988.html > > that > > > In small home networks and on mobile devices cups-browsed is not actually > > needed any more, as the IPP backend replaces it in this simple case of not > > needing load-balancing printer clusters and remote CUPS servers being CUPS > > and its replacement utilises the ability of CUPS versions 2.2.4 and > later to browse DNS-SD broadcasts and create a temporary queue. > > > 2. IPP backend - Lists printers discovered by DNS-SD, IPP network > > printers, IPP-over-USB printers, and remote CUPS queues, when the user > > selects one to print on, a temporary CUPS queue is created so that > > options can be displayed and the job be sent. > > AFAICT, CUPS only enumerates temporary queues for remote, non-raw > queues and this would rule out display of some types of Tea4CUPS > queues, for example. I take the point but, in a case like this, > cups-browsed has the edge and a very useful part to play. There are > probably other use cases where losing a raw queue display would be > undesirabale. > > Later in the linked mail: > > > cups-browsed will be continued, to provide additional functionality, > > especially interoperability of CUPS 1.5.x or older with CUPS 1.6.x or > > newer, to create load-balancing printer clusters, and to allow complex > > filtering on which remote queues/printers one wants to see and which not. > > Very pleased to know this, but note that the complex filtering is > not available with apps in unstable. Qt apps and libreoffice both > use CUPS' temporary queue feature. Let's say there are ten queues > displayed. When cups-browsed is installed it becomes the automatic > queue creator. There are no duplicated queues and the dialog still > shows ten queues. > > If five of the cups-browsed managed queues are filtered out, they > are replaced by five of CUPS' temporary queues. >
