Difference between LPR and remote IPP job

[Carlos Rodrigues]

> 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.

Isn't that the case only for remote clients? Doesn't the local lpr/lp command on the server submits its jobs to the local cups by IPP?