[cups-devel] USB Printing Standard

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 10:35:10 PDT 2018


David, does this replace ippusbxd? Or is this for a Printer Application 
to let a non-USB-over-IPP printer appear as a driverless IPP printer for 
CUPS?

    Till

On 31/08/18 19:11, David Valleau wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm currently working on creating a virtual USB printer to use for testing
> purposes.
> 
> I'm using USBIP
> <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/usb/usbip> which
> allows me to share my virtual printer over the network, as well as mocking
> a physical connection locally.
> 
> I've managed to get it working with most of the basic USB messages defined
> in the USB Printer Class Specification
> <http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/usbprint11a021811.pdf> and
> can configure the printer using CUPS.
> 
> I'm having some trouble with handling actual print jobs however. I can
> receive parts of the document, but CUPS fails with the error "Unable to
> send data to printer".
> 
> Is there any documentation which explains the expected exchange of messages
> during a basic USB print job?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
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