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

---- From: Mark Dm <[email protected]> -- Sent: 2022-04-14 - 07:24 ----
> 
> I think My WIndows 10 had a Generic "IPP Everywhere" driver installed
> 

Hi! 

Yes indeed. It is, however, disabled by default. I enabled it on one machine but I had no luck with it to print to cups. Also it is not available on older clients. 

Thanks 

> 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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