Re: [IPP] What value do IPP Printers provide for "printer-name"?

["Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & IPP Standards) via ipp" <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Chris! HP printers do something similar for the default DNS-SD Instance Name. If Xerox printers provide the same value for "printer-name" as "printer-dns-sd-name", if one changes then so does the other?

Smith



On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:21 PM, Rizzo, Christopher <[e-mail]> wrote:

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The Xerox devices that I work on use the Bonjour advertisement name for IPP printer-name. I cannot speak for all Xerox products.

The factory default for this is "Xerox <model> (<last 3 bytes of eth mac addr>)".

Reason for the mac addr append is for customers that purchase more than one device they can be identified while avoiding the need for initial conflicts in name resolution.

Chris

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On 6/11/24, 12:46 PM, "ipp on behalf of Michael Sweet via ipp" <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> on behalf of [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:


Smith,


> On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:22 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & IPP Standards) <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> ...
> So the attributes involved in a discussion were:
>
> printer-name (RFC 2911 / 8011 - required)
> printer-make-and-model (RFC 2911 / 8011 - recommended)
> printer-dns-sd-name (PWG 5100.13 - required)
>
> The wording of "printer-name" makes it sound like it should be a unique name, not a model name...


A printer by any other name would smell as sweet?


From RFC 8011, "printer-name" is *not* a unique name, just a more friendly one:


5.4.4. printer-name (name(127))


This REQUIRED Printer attribute contains the name of the Printer. It
is a name that is more End User friendly than a URI. An
Administrator determines a Printer's name and sets this attribute to
that name. This name can be the last part of the Printer's URI, or
it can be unrelated. In non-US-English locales, a name can contain
characters that are not allowed in a URI.


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