1driverless(1)                                                    driverless(1)
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NAME

6       driverless - PPD generator utility for driverless printing
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SYNOPSIS

9       driverless [-h | --help | --version] [-d | -v | --debug] [list] | [cat driver URI] | [IPP printer URI]
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DESCRIPTION

13       driverless  generates  PPD  files  for  printers which are designed for
14       driverless printing (currently IPP Everywhere and AirPrint printers) by
15       polling  capability  information  from  the printers via IPP. it can be
16       either called for listing suitable printers  in  the  network  and  for
17       actually generating the PPD. It can also be called by CUPS when CUPS is
18       listing available PPDs/drivers or creating  print  queues,  making  the
19       setup  of  driverless  printers  with printer setup tools transparently
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22       driverless is placed in  /usr/lib/cups/driver/  for  listing  available
23       driverless-capable  printers  and  generating  PPDs for them. It should
24       also be put in /usr/lib/cups/backend/ (preferably by a  symbolic  link)
25       to list IPP device URIs for suitable printers. Printer setup tools like
26       system-config-printer, the CUPS web interface at http://localhost:631/,
27       and  CUPS'  command line utilities can use driverless with CUPS to list
28       available driverless-capable printers, determine their IPP device  URIs
29       and generate PPDs for them. The printers will be automatically and cor‐
30       rectly set up for driverless printing. Note  that  driverless  printing
31       requires IPP communication with the printer.
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33       A   second   symbolic   link  to  /usr/lib/cups/driver/driverless  from
34       /usr/bin/ allows driverless to be called directly by a user.
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OPTIONS

37       -h, --help, --version
38              Show help page, including version number.
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40       -v, -d, --debug
41              Debug mode, verbose logging to stderr.
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43       list   List the driver URIs and metadata for all available IPP printers
44              suitable  for  driverless  PPD  file  generation  (to be used by
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47       cat driver URI
48              Generate the PPD file for the supplied driver URI from the  out‐
49              put of "list" (to be used by CUPS).
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51       IPP printer URI
52              Generate the PPD file for the supplied IPP printer URI (suitable
53              URIs are listed when calling driverless without options).
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55       When called without options, the IPP printer URIs of all available  IPP
56       printers will be listed.
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SEE ALSO

59       cups-browsed(8), ippfind(1)
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AUTHOR

62       The  authors  of  driverless  are  listed  in  /usr/share/doc/cups-fil‐
63       ters/AUTHORS.
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