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IPP Queue

An IPP Queue connector defines a named driverless print queue. Unlike every other print connector it has no connection settings -- it is simply a named IPP endpoint with its own set of print defaults and a distinct client install URI. Named queues let you expose different capabilities or defaults to different groups of users, all served by the same built-in IPP server.

Overview

Driverless printing always offers a single default IPP printer. An IPP Queue connector adds a named printer alongside it. Each named queue:

  • has its own IPP attribute set (advertised capabilities and print defaults), edited on the Driverless Print (IPP) page;

  • has a distinct client install URI, so users install exactly the queue you intend;

  • is access-controlled by the connector's groups, like any other connector;

  • carries no connection settings -- there is no server, folder, or credential to configure.

Typical uses include a colour queue and a black-and-white queue with different defaults, department-specific queues, or queues that advertise different finishing options -- without deploying any drivers.

How It Works

  1. You create an IPP Queue connector with a name and access rights. There is nothing else to configure on the connector itself.

  2. OptimiDoc stores the queue's IPP attributes on the server in a per-queue file (queue-<id>.ipp), separate from the default printer's attributes.

  3. On the Driverless Print page you select the queue and edit its attributes (Basic, Advanced, or Expert mode), or import them from a real device with Load from Device.

  4. Clients install the queue using its URI: ipps://<server>:631/ipp/print/<offset+id>, where the path id is the connector's id plus a fixed offset of 1,000,000,000. The exact URI is shown on the Driverless Print page when the queue is selected.

  5. Jobs submitted to the queue enter the standard pull print workflow -- rules, quotas, and release -- and only members of the connector's groups may use it.

  6. In a cluster, every printing node serves the queue too; nodes pull each queue's attributes from the cluster on their heartbeat, so a change made centrally propagates automatically.

Configuration

  1. Navigate to Printing > Print Connectors and click Add Connector.

  2. Enter a Name (e.g. "Colour -- A4 duplex") and select IPP Queue from the Type dropdown.

  3. The Configuration tab shows no fields -- an IPP Queue has no connection settings. Its print defaults are edited on the Driverless Print page.

  4. On the Access Rights tab, assign the Groups whose members may print to this queue.

  5. Click Save.

Editing the Queue's Print Defaults

Open Driverless Print (IPP), choose the queue from the Queue selector, and edit its attributes:

  • Basic -- a guided view of the most common options (paper size, colour, duplex, copies, resolution, finishing).

  • Advanced -- the attributes clients may set at print time.

  • Expert -- every advertised printer attribute.

The page also shows the queue's Client install URI: for distribution to users.

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