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id: pyipp
version: "0.17.2"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# pyipp — Asynchronous Python client for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 114.9K/mo

## What it is and what it does

pyipp is an async-first Python client library for the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), a standard protocol for printer communication over IP networks. It wraps the complexity of IPP protocol details into a simple async interface, allowing you to connect to and query IPP-capable printers programmatically without blocking your event loop.

The library is built on aiohttp for HTTP communication and includes retry logic (via backoff), version handling (awesomeversion), and configuration merging (deepmerge). It targets modern Python versions (3.9 through 3.13) and is actively maintained. Use it when you need to monitor printer status, retrieve job information, or interact with networked printers from within an async Python application.

Use it for:

- Monitor printer status and queue in a home automation or office management system.
- Build a dashboard that aggregates status from multiple IPP printers on a network.
- Integrate printer monitoring into an async web service or bot that needs real-time printer state.
- Query job history or configuration from IPP-capable printers for reporting or auditing.
- Implement retry logic and error handling for unreliable network connections to printers.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Asynchronous Python client for querying and monitoring printers that support the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) over network connections.

Yes. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no security vulnerabilities, and uses a permissive MIT license. It fills a clear niche for async IPP client functionality in Python. Install it if you need to programmatically interact with IPP printers; skip it if your use case does not involve network printer communication.

## Install

pip install pyipp
uv add pyipp
poetry add pyipp

## Installing pyipp

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained with recent commits; last release was 425 days ago but the repository shows ongoing activity. Depends on six common async libraries (aiohttp, async-timeout, awesomeversion, backoff, deepmerge, yarl) that are themselves well-established.

License in practice: MIT license is permissive and imposes no restrictions on commercial or private use. You may use, modify, and distribute this package freely provided you include the license notice.

Quickstart:

import asyncio
from pyipp import IPP, Printer

async def main():
    async with IPP("ipps://EPSON123456.local:631/ipp/print") as ipp:
        printer: Printer = await ipp.printer()
        print(printer)

asyncio.run(main())

Requires Python 3.9 or later. The IPP server must be accessible at the provided URL (typically an EPSON or other IPP-capable printer on the local network).

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package supports discovery of printers on the network or only connection to known URLs.
- What printer attributes and status fields are available through the Printer object.
- Whether the package handles authentication (username/password) for IPP servers that require it.

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 114.9K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

ipp printer client python, internet printing protocol async, printer monitoring library, ipp async client, network printer query, printer status monitoring, ipp protocol python, async-io, printer-protocol, network-device

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