Comment on Web printing
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Gotta say, this question and the process explained threw me for a loop.
You have a network print server where it’s advertising an available printer, but instead of the native printer system on a client device, you want to NOT use the CUPS server to print? That’s what it’s there for. I’m confused on why you have it then.
If your goal is just to have clients print as directly as possible to a printer…you already have that with CUPS running. I guess I’m not getting why submitting via web form is useful in this case.
Shimitar@feddit.it 1 week ago
I want to print from a web page: upload the file, hit print button.
In this way I can print from whatever device I want even without any driver installed or configuration.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
CUPS already does this though, and that’s where I’m getting confused. This is the entire point of CUPS. If your issue is with drivers, then you need to configure it to just print from its own driver via a spooled queue like PostScript, or maybe IPP.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer_sharing
Shimitar@feddit.it 1 week ago
I known cups can share printers and queues.
What is unclear?
I don’t want to pull drivers or install cups on devices. I want to print from anywhere just uploading a file to a web page.
If I have lots of devices or just want to let somebody print from his phone/tablet without installing or configuring anything…
With cups I still need to touch the system or the device somehow to let it print.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 week ago
You don’t have to install drivers or CUPS on client devices. Linux and Android support IPP out of the box. Just make sure your CUPS on the server is multicasting to the LAN.
You may need to install Avahi on the server if it’s not already (that’s what does the actual multicasting). The printer(s) should then auto magically appear in the print dialogs on apps on Linux clients and in the printer service on Android. On Linux it may take a few seconds to appear after you turn it on.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I am saying that CUPS requires zero drivers or anything else from clients. It advertises the printer on the network, a device sees it, and submits a job. That’s it. Exactly what you are describing doing with a web form, except CUPS already does all of this.
Sounds like you’re not sure how it works.