1. Introduction to Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System
2. Planning for Printing (Tasks)
3. Setting Up Network Printing Services (Tasks)
4. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Solaris Print Manager (Tasks)
5. Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)
6. Administering Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)
7. Customizing LP Printing Services and Printers (Tasks)
8. Administering the LP Print Scheduler and Managing Print Requests (Tasks)
9. Administering Printers on a Network (Tasks)
10. Administering Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks)
11. Administering Printers by Using the PPD File Management Utility (Tasks)
12. Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Reference)
13. Troubleshooting Printing Problems in the Oracle Solaris OS (Tasks)
A. Using the Internet Printing Protocol
Overview of the IPP Listening Service
How the IPP Listening Service Works
IPP is an application level network printing protocol that can be used for distributed printing though the use of Internet tools and technologies. The protocol was initiated to provide universal solutions for printing documents from the Internet. IPP is employed by several system and printer vendors because the protocol includes tools that are necessary to make a broad set of standard requests and receive standard responses from print client systems. IPP provides versioning, extensibility, and security, as well as enhanced functionality, including improvements in job and printer status retrieval.
IPP support in the Oracle Solaris release is comprised of client-side support and server-side support. Both the client-side and the server-side support share some common elements, as well as elements that are unique to either client or server operations. IPP client and server support shares a base code that implements some of these common components. Server-side support for IPP is available, starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release. Client-side support was introduced in the Solaris 10 5/08 release.
With IPP, you can perform the following tasks:
Find out about a printer's capabilities
Submit print jobs to a printer
Determine the status of a printer or a print job
Cancel a previously submitted print job
Hold, release, and restart print jobs
Modify print jobs
Move print jobs between queues
Accept, reject, enable, and disable print queues
Modify and delete printers
IPP includes a simplified model for printing that abstracts the various facets of real world printing solutions. This model uses objects, attributes, and a set of operations that are performed against these objects. IPP uses these abstracts to communicate information between print service consumers, or customers, and print service providers in a detailed, standard, extensible, and secure manner.