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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:06:21 +0100
From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Concept for PPD-less CUPS-spooled
 printing on Bonjour-discovered network printers
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To: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
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On 11/01/2013 03:48 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Till,
> 
> On Oct 30, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> What is required from a GUI is that as soon as the user selects a
>> printer for printing (or with the default printer when just opening the
>> dialog) is that if the printer is such PPD-less queue, to poll the
>> printer via IPP (code example below) to get its capabilities, show the
>> user-settable options on the dialog's option panel (like PPD options)
>> and send the job accompanied with the option settings, including the
>> ones which the user has not changed and the ones which have only one
>> choice (and so are not changeable). The job itself should be in PDF
>> format and (if the printer supplies appropriate info) in a page size
>> supported by the printer.
> 
> Till, I am curious why you are not using the CUPS APIs from 1.6 and later for this?
> 

Which new CUPS APIs do you mean?

> Also, I have my concerns of this approach - with cupsd not knowing anything about the printer, and with there being no way for a non-aware app to know what the printer's capabilities are, I foresee a lot of interoperability issues.

What alternative would there be without waking up the printer when the
mobile device enters the WLAN?

   Till