OpenPrinting need is declining (thanks, Mopria)

Posted Jul 31, 2025 21:45 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: OpenPrinting need is declining (thanks, Mopria) by farnz
Parent article: Help for OpenPrinting needed

To give an example: I once bought a large copier/printer with automatic stapling capability. This feature was supported on Linux by the ppd file provided for CUPS. But this is more complex than just sending a PDF via IPP.

OpenPrinting need is declining (thanks, Mopria)

Posted Jul 31, 2025 22:37 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> To give an example: I once bought a large copier/printer with automatic stapling capability. This feature was supported on Linux by the ppd file provided for CUPS. But this is more complex than just sending a PDF via IPP.

FWIW, stapling is one of the "finishing" options of IPP, formally standardized at least a decade ago. So yes, it really is as simple as specifying an additional property as part your IPP print job.

That said, I highly suspect there is no way to actually _specify_ that option when printing from standard operating system print clients/dialogs to a "driverless" IPP printer.. (I've seen plenty of stuff that uses IPP as the underlying transport but still uses a "driver" of some sort for the settings UI)