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6 driverless - PPD generator utility for driverless printing
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9 driverless [-h | --help | --version] [-d | -v | --debug] [list] | [cat driver URI] | [IPP printer URI]
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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/,
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28 available driverless-capable printers, determine their IPP device URIs
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33 A second symbolic link to /usr/lib/cups/driver/driverless from
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37 -h, --help, --version
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43 list List the driver URIs and metadata for all available IPP printers
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48 Generate the PPD file for the supplied driver URI from the out‐
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52 Generate the PPD file for the supplied IPP printer URI (suitable
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55 When called without options, the IPP printer URIs of all available IPP
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