[cups.general] Getting capability info from IPP printers

[Michael Sweet]

Till,

The discovery APIs are designed to only find CUPS and IPP Everywhere-compatible printers at this time, although conceptually they could be made to find others (including maybe statically-configured printers in ~/.cups?)

All of the destination APIs will work with any IPP printer - just create a CUPS destination and set the printer-uri-supported value in the options array to have them look at the specific printer you are using.


On 2013-02-20, at 7:41 AM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/19/2013 07:38 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Have you looked at the new destination APIs?  They are really intended to support this kind of usage (discovery, query for capabilities, and support job submission and management) without you needing to write a lot of extra code...
> 
> I have looked into these APIs now, but it seems that they only work with
> remote CUPS queues and not with network printers. Or did I overlook
> something?
> 
>   Till
> 
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