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title: "Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)"
description: "Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 165k installs sharing analytics and works locally."
canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/ipp"
url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/ipp.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
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# Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)

> Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 165k installs sharing analytics and works locally.

Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is a built-in integration that connects network printers to Home Assistant locally. It adds sensors for printer activity, including impressions completed, color and monochrome impressions, media sheets, pages completed and uptime. Home Assistant can detect a compatible printer on the network and offer to add it. Setup is done in the UI, where the printer's host, port and path are entered, along with options for using and verifying an SSL certificate. A diagnostics file can be downloaded to attach to a bug report.

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[Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/config_flow_start/?domain=ipp)

## Supports

- **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
- **Set up in the UI**: Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
- **Found by itself**: Home Assistant spots it on the network and offers to add it.
- **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

## Setting it up

Home Assistant usually finds it on the network and offers to add it. It can also be added by hand under Settings, Devices and services.

### Link your printer

- **Relative path to the printer**
- **Host**
- **Port**
- **Uses an SSL certificate**
- **Verify SSL certificate**

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

## Entities

- **Sensors**: Impressions completed, Color impressions completed, Monochrome impressions completed, Media sheets completed, Pages completed, Uptime

## Troubleshooting

- **Diagnostics**: Downloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.

## At a glance

- Kind: Built-in integration
- Category: [Computers and network](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/computers-and-network.md), Printers
- Number: 165k installs sharing analytics
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant
- Needs: Built into Home Assistant
- Domain: `ipp`
- Source: <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/ipp/>

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/ipp

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