Use "Remote Printer" driver for cups-shared printer in cups client
I use a cups print server to share a USB-connected printer. One of my new network clients needed the printer set up, and of course my client runs cups too. An existing cups client uses the printer with a "remote printer" driver that works well, and the closest model number in the built-in list after installing the generic, distro-provided package for this brand printed the page incredibly wrong.
So, I spent time learning how to set up the cups client to use "Remote Printer (grayscale, 2-sided printing)" driver, which presumably then lets the cups server use the correct driver I would have set up at least once on the real print server.
On the cups client, visit the cups web interface, normally http://localhost:631, and navigate to Administration -> add printer.
Select ipp printer type, and add your network printer: Mine was ipp://192.168.1.150:631/printers/printername. Add name, etc. Now, on the cups page where you select make and model or PPD file, select "Raw" -> IPP Everywhere. Then select button "Add Printer."
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