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

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Thu Oct 16 06:04:57 PDT 2008


On 2008 Oct 16, at 5:57, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
>> 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?


It does, but that doesn't matter because the lpd interface used by the  
client program doesn't allow retrieval of the PPD.

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