[cups] forcing OS X Yosemite CUPS 2.x to interoperate with IPP 1.1?

[Michael Sweet]

Tim,

Setup the shared printer using a device URI of "ipp://servername/printers/printername?version=1.1".


> On Aug 19, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All!
> 
> I'm new to the cups mailing list, or at least haven't been a member since
> the old cups site went offline years ago.
> 
> We're running a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11-based campus print server,
> which means cups 1.3.7.
> 
> We've recently begun testing Mac OS X Yosemite clients, and discovered
> that they cannot successfully submit print jobs to CUPS 1.3.7.
> 
> The cups error_log says:
> 
> E [19/Aug/2015:11:06:46 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 8 IPP Read Error!
> D [19/Aug/2015:11:06:46 -0500] cupsdSendError: 8 code=400 (Bad Request)
> 
> Searching the web for that, Red Hat support has self-filed this NOTABUG:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978399
> 
> So, if you're using a command-line client to submit the job, you can
> specify /version=1.1.  I haven't tested that to confirm, but I trust
> what Tim Waugh is saying in that ticket.
> 
> The question is, how do you get the CUPS 2.x implementation on Mac OS X
> Yosemite to do that?  Is there some "advanced option" somewhere in the GUI
> to make the Mac's implementation default to IPP/1.1 for particular queues?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair