driverless(1)

💖 driverless(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the driverless manual page — section 1 of the manual, general commands, iykyk ✨ this one's a PPD generator utility for driverless printing and honestly? it's giving quiet overachiever. let's get into it 🫶

✨ 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 🦋

so driverless generates PPD files for printers that are designed for driverless IPP printing — and right now that means IPP Everywhere, AirPrint, Mopria, and Wi-Fi-Direct printers, plus network printers, plus IPP-over-USB printers (with a lil assist from ippusbxd(8) 🧚). how does it do it? it polls capability information from the printers via IPP. no cap.

you can call it two ways, bestie:

• to list suitable printers in the network 🌈
• to actually generate the PPD 👑

it can also be called by CUPS when CUPS is listing available PPDs/drivers or creating print queues, which makes setting up driverless printers with printer setup tools just… transparently work. the way that just works?? iconic.

driverless lives 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 🔗) so it can 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 all use driverless with CUPS to list available driverless-capable printers, determine their IPP device URIs and generate PPDs for them. and then the printers get automatically and correctly set up for driverless printing 🌸. obsessed.

💀 heads up: driverless printing requires IPP communication with the printer. that's not optional, that's the whole vibe check.

a second symbolic link to /usr/lib/cups/driver/driverless from /usr/bin/ lets driverless be called directly by a user 🙈 (yes, you, main character).

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help, --version — show the help page, including the 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. periodt. 🦋

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the authors of driverless are listed in /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/AUTHORS. go give them their flowers 💐

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this little manual is from 27 Dec 2016 and it's the driverless(1) page from the cups-filters source, version 1 — mwah, slay, go print something driverlessly 💖✨🫶