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NAME

driverless - PPD generator utility for driverless printing

SYNOPSIS

driverless [-h | --help | --version] [-d | -v | --debug] [list] [_ipps._tcp] [_ipp._tcp] [--std-ipp-uris] | [cat driver URI] | [IPP printer URI]

DESCRIPTION

driverless generates PPD files for printers which are designed for
driverless IPP printing (currently IPP Everywhere, AirPrint, Mopria,
and Wi-Fi-Direct printers, network printers and also IPP-over-USB
printers with the help of ippusbxd(8)) by polling capability
information from the printers via IPP. it can be either called for
listing suitable printers in the network and for actually generating
the PPD. It can also be called by CUPS when CUPS is listing available
PPDs/drivers or creating print queues, making the setup of driverless
printers with printer setup tools transparently working.

driverless is placed in /usr/lib/cups/driver/ for listing available
driverless-capable printers and generating PPDs for them. It should
also be put in /usr/lib/cups/backend/ (preferably by a symbolic link)
to list IPP device URIs for suitable printers. Printer setup tools
like system-config-printer, the CUPS web interface at
http://localhost:631/, and CUPS' command line utilities can use
driverless with CUPS to list available driverless-capable printers,
determine their IPP device URIs and generate PPDs for them. The
printers will be automatically and correctly set up for driverless
printing. Note that driverless printing requires IPP communication
with the printer.

A second symbolic link to /usr/lib/cups/driver/driverless from
/usr/bin/ allows driverless to be called directly by a user.

OPTIONS

-h, --help, --version
Show help page, including version number.

-v, -d, --debug
Debug mode, verbose logging to stderr.

list List the driver URIs and metadata for all available IPP/IPPS
printers suitable for driverless PPD file generation (to be
used by CUPS).

_ipps._tcp
Check for only IPPS printers supporting driverless printing .

_ipp._tcp
Check for only IPP printers supporting driverless printing .

--std-ipp-uris
Show URIS in standard form

cat driver URI
Generate the PPD file for the supplied driver URI from the
output of "list" (to be used by CUPS).

IPP printer URI
Generate the PPD file for the supplied IPP printer URI
(suitable URIs are listed when calling driverless without
options).

When called without options, the IPP printer URIs of all available
driverless-capable IPP printers will be listed.

SEE ALSO

cups-browsed(8), ippfind(1), ippusbxd(8)

AUTHOR

The authors of driverless are listed in /usr/share/doc/cups-
filters/AUTHORS.

27 Dec 2016 driverless(1)