It is a standard printer protocol based on HTTP, allowing you to use port forwarding, tunneling etc. The preferred way to connect a Windows client to a Linux print server is using IPP, as the configuration is simpler than using Samba. Then, to install the printer on Windows: Sharing via IPP Save your change by clicking on the Change Settings button.

Open up the web interface to the server, select the Administration tab, look under the Server heading, and enable the 'Share printers connected to this system' option. I’ll quote Arch Wiki’s Printer sharing article on the following.įirst, to enable sharing, it refers to the CUPS server: They need not be related to your printer in any way. Windows ships with various suitable drivers. This is important because CUPS also supports “raw” queues where it does not actually know how to create printer data itself but relies on client-side drivers to do that.īecause CUPS knows how to print, you can just feed it PostScript data.

Since you can print on Linux, you have a proper driver.

Hp universal print driver