[cups.general] Setting IPP printer with CUPS on RHES 4.0

[Denny Snyder]

The only difference in printing IPP vs lpd or socket or however you have it setup now is choosing IPP from the dropdown selection box in the CUPS web interface and then giving it a proper device address URI.  i.e. lpd://ipaddress:raw or socket:://printername:9100 or http://blahblahblah

I used printer1.domain.dom as an example...  so if I put an entry for newprinter in /etc/hosts on the CUPS server, my IPP device URI would be ipp://newprinter/ipp/ (trust me, I have 94 printers per server on 9 servers and I'm constantly going in and modifying printers)

The device URI is entered in the 2nd or 3rd screen when you create a printer...

Name, Location, Description
Protocol Selection (Appletalk/JetDirect, IPP, HTTP, etc)
Device URI
Manufacturer
Model

Denny Snyder
IT at Johns Hopkins
5801 Smith Ave Suite 3110C
Baltimore, MD 21209
(410)735-7613 : DESK
(410)735-4660 : FAX
wolverine at jhu dot edu


-----Original Message-----
From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On Behalf Of Anton Preheim
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:36 PM
To: cups at easysw.com
Subject: Re: [cups.general] Setting IPP printer with CUPS on RHES 4.0

Hi Denny,

Thanks for your response.  You're correct.  I used the printer GUI interface to setup IP's printer with RAW print queue and we're using without much effort.  I have been asked to setup an IPP printer so that the users can print directly from Oracle.

So, what I am gathering here that I will have to setup the printer in the /etc/hosts file with the IP address and that's it??  I don't understand about the url printer1.domain.com statement at all.  So, how many different area do I need to touch to successfully setup up IPP printer??  Do you have examples or step by step procedure??  By the way, I am new to Linux environment.


Help (-:

Thanks,

AP



> I take it you're attempting to print to an IPP printer such as to a newer J=
> etDirect or newer intregrated JetDirect?
>
> Make sure you put the correct device URI in ...  (I usually create a /etc/h=
> osts entry for each printer so I don't have to use IPs or FQDNs)
>
> So if the printer is pingable as printer1.domain.dom and supports IPP then =
> the device URI would (should) be:
> ipp://printer1.domain.dom/ipp/
>
> that's it :)
>
> at least that's what the JetDirects accept..  for others they sometimes use=
>  a different style such as not ending /ipp/ or use /ipp/raw - you'll have t=
> o check the documentation for those.
>
> All of this is painfully easy to setup through the cups web interface at ht=
> tps://serverip:631 (provided cupsd is running AND iptables has an allowance=
>  for your source IP to port 631 AND cupsd.conf has an allow for your IP or =
> subnet to access the admin pages within cups! - lotsa gotchas there that ca=
> n promote immediate hair loss :) easiest?  Ssh in (with a -X just in case) =
> and run firefox https://localhost:631 and have it come back to your xserver=
> ..  I use xming for my xserver and putty - this way you don't have to do any=
>  iptables or cupsd.conf stuff...  localhost is always allowed by default.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Denny Snyder
> IT at Johns Hopkins
> 5801 Smith Ave Suite 3110C
> Baltimore, MD 21209
> (410)735-7613 : DESK
> (410)735-4660 : FAX
> wolverine at jhu dot edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On Behalf Of=
>  Anton Preheim
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:01 PM
> To: cups at easysw.com
> Subject: [cups.general] Setting IPP printer with CUPS on RHES 4.0
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know how I can setup an IPP printer by using CUPS protocol =
> with my Linux RedHat 4.0 server?  I have to no trouble so far setting up ne=
> twork printer using the IP address.  However, I am struggling on setting up=
>  the IPP printer in CUPS printing utility.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> AP
>
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