papi and cups

[Michael Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
>> fadhel wrote:
>>> hi all!
>>>  just a litle question, could papi work in stand alone server
>>  > without having cups for example?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>  > what is papi?
>>
>> PAPI is a print API loosely based on IPP which allows an application
>> to print via any printing system.  Right now the sample
>> implementation supports CUPS, LPRng, and System V lp.
>>
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>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>> Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com
> 
> Could PAPI work as a server by itself?does the mod_ipp do that?

No, PAPI can't be a server by itself.

mod_ipp only provides an Apache module to receive IPP requests and
uses PAPI to submit jobs to the local queues.

So regardless you'll need some sort of server running if you want
to accept jobs from another system.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com