driverless(1)

NAME
driverless - PPD generator utility for driverless printing

SYNOPSIS
driverless [-h | --help | --version] [-d | -v | --debug] [list] | [cat driver URI] | [IPP printer URI]

DESCRIPTION
driverless generates PPD files for printers which are designed for driverless printing (currently IPP Everywhere and Apple Raster printers) by polling capability information from the printers via IPP. it can be either called for listing suitable printers in the network and for actually generating the PPD It can also be called by CUPS when CUPS is listing available PPDs/drivers or creating print queues, making the setup of driverless printers with printer setup tools transparently working.

For automatic use by CUPS when setting up printers with printer setup tools or via CUPS' command line utilities the tools has to be placed in the /usr/lib/cups/driver/ directory.

OPTIONS

-h, --help, --version
    Show help page, including version number.

-v, -d, --debug
    Debug mode, verbose logging to stderr.

list
    List the driver URIs and metadata for all available IPP printers suitable for driverless PPD file generation (to be used by CUPS).

cat driver URI
    Generate the PPD file for the supplied driver URI from the output of "list" (to be used by CUPS).

IPP printer URI
    Generate the PPD file for the supplied IPP printer URI (suitable URIs are listed when calling driverless without options).

When called without options, the IPP printer URIs of all available IPP printers will be listed.

SEE ALSO
cups-browsed(8)

AUTHOR
The authors of driverless are listed in /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/AUTHORS.