[Printing-architecture] Fwd: What windows driver to use with a CUPS IPP server?

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From: Mark Dm <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] What windows driver to use with a CUPS
IPP server?
To: Forza <[email protected]>


I think My WIndows 10 had a Generic "IPP Everywhere" driver installed

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 1:32 PM Forza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I have a Ubuntu Server 21.10 with CUPS 2.3.3o installed. I've set up to
> the printers with either socket://printer:9100 or ipp://printer and
> enabled sharing on each queue. This exposes each CUPS queue as an IPP
> printer to all clients.
>
> Now my problem is to determine what driver should be used in Windows.
>
> A little background:
>
> We have several Windows clients ranging from WinXP to Win10 that are
> printing on about a hundred HP printers (LaserJet and PageWide).
> Currently these machines print through a Windows Printer server, but it
> is getting more and more difficult to properly support older clients
> with the HP universal printer drivers. Also from security perspective we
> need to isolate older clients on separate quite restrictive networks and
> generally not enable SMB/Samba access.
>
> There is a built-in Windows driver called "MS Publisher Imagesetter"
> that works pretty well, but it lacks most options such as selecting
> colour/greyscale or duplex output, as well as exposing proper printer
> margins and scaling to the applications.
>
> The CUPS server is not on the same broadcast domain as the clients and
> DNS-SD and similar can not be used. This means that Windows clients
> cannot automatically detect and setup WSD or IPP queues from CUPS.
>
> Someone on IRC said I should use the native HP drivers, but this seems
> wrong to me;
> * First there are no updated drivers for older clients
> * Isn't the idea of CUPS as a printer spooler to separate the client
> from the printer so that we can use classes etc to direct output without
> the clients knowing?
>
> I'd be grateful for any suggestions and insights.
>
>
> Forza
>
>
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