Driverless printing

[[Article description::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.

is placed in for listing available driverless-capable printers and generating PPDs for them. It should also be put in (preferably by a symbolic link) to list IPP device URIs for suitable printers. Printer setup tools like, the CUPS web interface at http://localhost:631/, and CUPS' command line utilities can use 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 from  allows driverless to be called directly by a user.]]

The command is part of.

Setup the printer
Following procedure shown here as an example for Brother's HL-L2340DW can be used when is broken because of missing

Step 1: Find out which printers are available

The important part here is Brother HL-L2340D series.

No need to worry about. It is not there, but who needs it?

Step 2: Get some more information with lpinfo -m:

Here, the important is the second line everywhere IPP Everywhere. That query creates another line in the access log and again says it cannot find ippfind.

Step 3: Next step, is called with Brother_HL-L2340D_series and everywhere using the printer's IP address:

This step adds the printer to the configuration and also creates the ppd file in

Step 4: (Optional) The setup can be viewed using :

Step 5: Go ahead with printing

External resources

 * https://openprinting.github.io/driverless/01-standards-and-their-pdls/
 * http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/cups-printers-urls.html
 * https://pwg.org/pwg-books/ippguide.html
 * https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#Driverless_Printing_and_Printers
 * http://support.brother.com/g/b/spec.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as