NAME

       driverless - PPD generator utility for driverless printing

SYNOPSIS

       driverless [-h | --help | --version] [-d | -v | --debug] [list] | [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 printers suitable for driverless PPD file
              generation (to be used by CUPS).

       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)