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How to simulate a USB printer that gets recognized by ipp-usb?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux

Research direction

The issue mentions the Linux USB printer gadget and ipp-usb, but names no repository files, tests, or entry points. First determine whether the gadget can be discovered by ipp-usb and what documentation or test setup would be needed; the issue does not define a concrete completion criterion.

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Description

Hi there,

thanks for the great work!

I am using IPP-USB but I also do want to programatically test its functionality. I have a linux system and am testing normal/non-ipp usb printers using the USB printer gadget (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/gadget_printer.rst). Is there a way of simulating a usb printer that than will be found by IPP-USB?

Regards
Lars

Dominant language
Go
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210
Forks
33
Avg merge
5h 47m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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