NAME

ipp-usb - Daemon for IPP over USB printer support

DESCRIPTION

ipp-usb daemon enables driver-less printing and scanning on USB-only AirPrint-compatible printers and MFPs.

It works by connecting to the device by USB using IPP-over-USB protocol, and exposing the device to the network, including DNS-SD (ZeroConf) advertising.

IPP printing, eSCL scanning and web console are fully supported.

SYNOPSIS

Usage:

ipp-usb mode [options]

Modes are:

standalone: run forever, automatically discover IPP-over-USB devices and serve them all
udev: like standalone, but exit when last IPP-over-USB device is disconnected
debug: logs duplicated on console, -bg option is ignored
check: check configuration and exit

Options are

-bg: run in background (ignored in debug mode)

CONFIGURATION

ipp-usb searched for its configuration file in two places: 1. /etc/ipp-usb/ipp-usb.conf 2. ipp-usb.conf in the directory where executable file is located

Configuration file syntax is very similar to .INI files syntax. It consist of named sections, and each section contains a set of named variables. Comments are started from # or ; characters and continues until end of line:

# This is a comment
[section 1]
variable 1 = value 1  ; and another comment
variable 2 = value 2

Network parameters

Network parameters are all in the [network] section:

[network]
  # TCP ports for HTTP will be automatically allocated in the following range
  http-min-port = 60000
  http-max-port = 65535

  # Enable or disable DNS-SD advertisement
  dns-sd = enable      # enable | disable

  # Network interface to use. Set to `all` if you want to expose you
  # printer to the local network. This way you can share your printer
  # with other computers in the network, as well as with iOS and Android
  # devices.
  interface = loopback # all | loopback

  # Enable or disable IPv6
  ipv6 = enable        # enable | disable

Logging configuration

Logging parameters are all in the [logging] section:

[logging]
  # device-log  - what logs are generated per device
  # main-log    - what common logs are generated
  # console-log - what of generated logs goes to console
  #
  # parameter contains a comma-separated list of
  # the following keywords:
  #   error     - error messages
  #   info      - informative messages
  #   debug     - debug messages
  #   trace-ipp, trace-escl, trace-http - very detailed per-protocol traces
  #   all       - all logs
  #   trace-all - alias to all
  #
  # Note, trace-* implies debug, debug implies info, info implies error
  device-log    = all
  main-log      = debug
  console-log   = debug

  # Log rotation parameters:
  #   log-file-size    - max log file before rotation. Use suffix M
  #                      for megabytes or K for kilobytes
  #   log-backup-files - how many backup files to preserve during rotation
  #
  max-file-size    = 256K
  max-backup-files = 5

  # Enable or disable ANSI colors on console
  console-color = enable # enable | disable

Quirks

Some devices, due to their firmware bugs, require special handling, called device-specific quirks. ipp-usb loads quirks from the /usr/share/ipp-usb/quirks/*.conf files. These files have .INI-file syntax with the content that looks like this:

[HP LaserJet MFP M28-M31]
  http-connection = keep-alive

[HP OfficeJet Pro 8730]
  http-connection = close

[HP Inc. HP Laser MFP 135a]
  blacklist = true

# Default configuration
[*]
  http-connection = ""

For each discovered device, its model name is matched against sections of the quirks files. Section name may contain glob-style wildcards: * that matches any sequence of characters and ?, that matches any single character. If device name must contain any of these characters, use backslash as escape.

All matching sections from all quirks files are taken in consideration, and applied in priority order. Priority is computed using the following algorithm:

When matching model name against section name, amount of non-wildcard matched characters is counted, and the longer match wins
Otherwise, section loaded first wins. Files are loaded in alphabetical order, sections read sequentially

If some parameter exist in multiple sections, used its value from the most priority section

The following parameters are defined:

blacklist = true | false: If true, the matching device is ignored by the ipp-usb
http-XXX = YYY: Set XXX header of the HTTP requests forwarded to device to YYY. If YYY is empty string, XXX header is removed

FILES

/etc/ipp-usb/ipp-usb.conf: the daemon configuration file
/var/log/ipp-usb/main.log: the main log file
/var/log/ipp-usb/<DEVICE>.log: per-device log files
/var/ipp-usb/dev/<DEVICE>.state: device state (HTTP port allocation, DNS-SD name)
/var/ipp-usb/lock/ipp-usb.lock: lock file, that helps to prevent multiple copies of daemon to run simultaneously
/usr/share/ipp-usb/quirks/*.conf: device-specific quirks (see above)

COPYRIGHT

This program is licensed under 2-Clause BSD license. See LICENSE file for details.