cups to cups printing Qs

[Michael Sweet]

David Botsch wrote:
> So, the server is smart enough to figure out that filtering has already
> happened (without having to setup a raw queue on the server)?

Normally, yes.

> A followup...
> 
> Is it possible to add the client queue so that it still has the PPD (so
> that apps can present printer dialogs that have various printer options
> available) but still be a raw queue? What you state below seems to be an
> either or.

CUPS automatically advertises raw queues as remote printers when
the URI is of the form "ipp://server/printers/printer" or
"ipp://server/classes/class".  Thus, any CUPS client will retrieve
the PPD file from the server and not from the local system (but only
for a raw queue...)

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