IPP, bonjour, chromebook, Meraki, ubiquiti

[jmaister]

Re: IPP, bonjour, chromebook, Meraki, ubiquiti

oh boy, heavy readings...

I'm not network savy at all...connect the dots till they work...is what i learnt to do..

All I rely on is Socket Direct, tcp/ip. Never liked IPP, it was never reliable per any use case in the last ten years for me. Contracting IT company swear by IPP because "newer technology is better" mindset. But I have never bought into those.

"The better technology is the one you never call the printer guy for."


I guess this chrombook printing isnt something that will go away.


*edit: manual config to socket on chromebook does not work for me.

and if I turn IPP off, printing stops. This isnt even cloud printing, this is only LAN.

[J_Arnold]

Re: IPP, bonjour, chromebook, Meraki, ubiquiti

That is interesting. I have a chromebook, I have set up chromebooks, I have never used IPP. Same with Macs, never. It seems like appsocket, jetdirect or tcp/ip works without failure for me. I guess I am assuming though that the chromebooks and macpads link to lan for internet, not through like apipa reaching out for whatever is available off network. I have taken Macs away from airprint and recreated printers through appsocket or equivalent. Seems to work much better. Just saying maybe I'm doing it wrong, but in my mind works better than IPP.

Most manufacturers create specific drivers for macs, so I don't use cups unless needed. The trouble with Chromebooks are manufacturer's don't write many drivers for them, just generic that print and maybe duplex.

I have found with phones, manufacturers have their printing and scanning apps which allow printing scanning capabilities. I might guess these use IPP connection to apipa networking. Don't know for sure.

I'm not an expert on this stuff. Just saying what has worked for me and asking a question about IPP. I remember years ago IPP seemed to be used primarily in long distance printing like an office in NY printing through the internet to an office in CA. Now businesses have vpn's etc and 2 offices are connected through a wan. I am curious is IPP still really viable? Again, just trying to learn a topic.

My thoughts on APPsocket and jet direct (p9100) protocols: It is considered as the fastest simplest and probably one of the most reliable, but the security is lacking and extremely vulnerable and everyone knows it., so it is a matter of time before it is obsolete or will have to be majorly revised.