[cups-devel] Adding IPP-over-USB Support to CUPS

[Sean Kau]

Hi,

It looks like ippusbxd requires the dummy device to be included in the
kernel which we would rather not add to our distro.  It's in the vein that
it would be nice if CUPS could communicate with the IPP-over-USB device
directly.

Sean

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:06 AM Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David,
>
> if you want to contribute, please have a look at the still needed
> changes on Avahi:
>
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125
>
> (see also readme.md file displayed on
> https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ippusbxd)
>
> With this done IPP-over-USB printers simply appear as network printers
> on localhost:60000 and are then simply automatically seen by CUPS and
> cups-browsed without any changes on CUPS/cups-browsed needed.
>
>     Till
>
>
> On 10/16/2017 01:15 AM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > There is already an open source ippusbxd program that provides IPP-USB
> support on platforms that support libusb. macOS has an equivalent ippusbd
> based on IOKit.
> >
> > The problem with an ippusb backend is that it doesn’t allow the web
> interface to be used on the printer, nor does it allow things like scanning
> to work...
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Oct 13, 2017, at 6:47 PM, David Valleau <valleau at chromium.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am looking into adding IPP-over-USB support directly into CUPS.
> >>
> >> This would likely involve implementing a new backend (ie ippusb) as
> well as
> >> adding support for it into the lpadmin tool.
> >>
> >> Is this something that would be desirable?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> David
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