[cups.general] Difference between LPR and remote IPP job

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Oct 15, at 19:43, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> I'm having a problem with windows clients printing to a shared  
> printer on my Mac, which is totally baffling me, so I have a (not  
> so) simple question...
>
> What's the difference between a job submitted by lpr and a job  
> submitted remotely over IPP by a windows client?

IPP allows the print client to retrieve the PPD file and use it to  
format the print job; lpd doesn't, so the server has to assume  
defaults and/or guess.

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