On Tue 12 Nov 2019 at 11:30:33 -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: > I believe the newest printers offer a way to print "driverless" via IPP
"Newest" encompasses the past 5-10 years. > as well -- that is, rather than needing a device-specific PPD, the use > of IPP lets you just send a standardized "printing format" (PDF, PCL, > something like that), and that "printing format" plus the options you PDLS are PDF, Apple Raster and PWG Raster. pclm too (but that is not PCL). > told it via the control channel gets you a nice document. Though, that > might just be vaporware at the moment. Vaporware? Are you aware of the effort put in by upstream CUPS and cups-filters to support modern printers? Driverless printing is a reality now and is the future. -- Brian.
