Chapter 5. Determining whether a printer supports driverless printing

• AirPrint™
• IPP Everywhere™
• Mopria®
• Wi-Fi Direct Print Services

Prerequisites

• The printer or remote print server supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).
• The host can connect to the IPP port of the printer or remote print server. The default IPP port is 631.

Procedure

• Query the ipp-versions-supported and document-format-supported attributes, and ensure that the get-printer-attributes test passes:

  • For a remote printer, enter:

    # ipptool -tv ipp://<ip_address_or_hostname>:631/ipp/print get-printer-attributes.test | grep -E "ipp-versions-supported|document-format-supported|get-printer-attributes"

    Get printer attributes using get-printer-attributes      [PASS]
        ipp-versions-supported (1setOf keyword) = ...
        document-format-supported (1setOf mimeMediaType) = ...

  • For a queue on a remote print server, enter:

    # ipptool -tv ipp://<ip_address_or_hostname>:631/printers/<queue_name> get-printer-attributes.test | grep -E "ipp-versions-supported|document-format-supported|get-printer-attributes"

    Get printer attributes using get-printer-attributes      [PASS]
        ipp-versions-supported (1setOf keyword) = ...
        document-format-supported (1setOf mimeMediaType) = ...

  To ensure that driverless printing works, verify in the output:

  • The get-printer-attributes test returns PASS.
  • The IPP version that the printer supports is 2.0 or higher.

  • The list of formats contains one of the following:

    • application/pdf
    • image/urf
    • image/pwg-raster
  • For color printers, the output contains one of the mentioned formats and, additionally, image/jpeg.