Internet Printing Protocol server

The IBM® Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) server for i allows IPP clients (such as Windows PCs) to submit and manage print jobs to any IBM i printer.

Print jobs are passed to an attached printer and might involve further processing with applications such as host print transform or PSF. The target printer does not need to support IPP.

The IPP server supports IPP version 1.1. The following required operations are supported:

• Print-job
• Validate-job
• Get-printer-attributes
• Get-jobs
• Cancel-job
• Get-job-attributes

Additionally, the following optional IPP operations are supported:

• Pause-printer
• Resume-printer
• Purge-jobs
• Hold-job
• Release-job
• Restart-job

The IPP server can be configured to provide security features for user authentication and encryption of print data. For more information about how to configure the IPP Server, see Set up the IPP server.