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On 16 February 2013 19:06, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you explain what you mean. All modern print servers support IPP. CUPS is just > one such print server. > Some printers support IPP directly, typically expensive ones. Can you give an example of such a printer model? > Discovery of printers is typically done using cups browsing protocol on *nix (Udp > on port 631) and samba's cups support to advertise printers to clients using > Microsoft SMb family of protocols. The current Webconverger stance on http://webconverger.org/printing is to make people setup a CUPs server for their printers, instead of local installs. This sucks because there is quite a high barrier to setup one's own CUPS print server. With a CUPS print server on the network, that in my (limited) printing experience is the easiest to detect and print to as a client on the network, without any extra software. https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/blob/master/etc/cups/cupsd.conf#L20 Perhaps I'm missing a trick with other printing protocols: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_server It's just that Webconverger is designed so that it cannot have any new drivers or software written to an install to get printing working. I guess my print problems is why Google invented http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/ and why Apple invented AirPrint? :) Thanks for any pointers in advance, -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq