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)