[cups] XPS proxy for cups

[Steve Root]

I'm having reasonable* success using IPP printer protocols through cups.
https://www.steveroot.co.uk/2019/11/19/magic-letterhead-tray-making-preprinted-stationary-automatically-on-plain-white-paper/


I would think that you could extend what I did onto a server/VM with two
networks (say 192.168.1.10 & 192.168.2.10), search and add printers on
the 192.168.1.* network and allow sharing to clients on 192.168.2.*
As well as creating a print queue for the magic letterhead I created a
queue that's just a simple plain paper printer but that's not shown in my
blog notes.

*Reasonable == it's been fine for simple A4 prints, duplex options.  It
loses some of the custom print driver functions. EG the Kyocera printer
driver that came with our printers allows for Poster prints for large
documents to be spread across multiple pages but that doesn't appear as an
option for printers added via IPP.  Occasionally weird things have happened
that could be caused anywhere between Win 10 client, programme that's
printing, print server or even the printer itself.

Hope that helps,
Steve


On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 09:48, Martin Vogt <mvogt1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:44 PM Helge Blischke <helgeblischke at web.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Look at sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/xpstopdf_or_ps.tar.gz
> <
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/xpstopdf_or_ps/xpstopdf_or_ps.tar.gz/download
> > >
> > > Am 07.01.2020 um 19:16 schrieb Martin Vogt <mvogt1 at gmail.com>:
> > > is there an implementation for,or some kind of, "XPS proxy" for cupsd?
> >
>
> I think, I understand now, what I really meant:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_for_Devices
>
> The idea is to have all the printers in its own VLAN and then having a
> proxy, like ipp/cups, so that the devices can be shared / exported
> into other VLANs on a single service point.
> My web search was not successfull if such a "WSD proxy" already exists, but
> there are some WS discovery implementations in python,C and java.
> This WSD protocol seems not to be used very often, given that there are so
> few problem reports, or its working very well, but I doubt that.
>
> The Windows GUI supports adding "Web Service Device" in the Add printer
> wizard "using TCP/IP" address, and it seems its possible to add it with
> powershell too:
>
>
> https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/b63c95fc-9c94-417e-99f0-37fd2d09ad17/how-to-add-wsd-printer-port-manually-or-programmatically?forum=winserverprint
>
> Additonally there is some "StableWSDiscoveryEndpoint" in the
> WSDPrintServiceV12 document, but as said, I haven't found anything working.
> So there is no "WSD proxy", like ipp/cups.
>
> best regards,
>
> Martin
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