[cups.bugs] cupstestppd foomatic ppds errors

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 14:37, WL Yeow wrote:
> CUPS version: 1.1.23_rc1 (gentoo)
> Foomatic version: 3.0.2 (20040302)
> Printer: HP LaserJet 4100 with duplex unit through HP JetDirect
> PPD: Generic-PostScript_Printer-Postscript (foomatic)
> 
> Problem started with failure in duplex printing: CUPS simply reported the job is done without any printout nor errors in /var/log/cups/error_log at all.
> 
> Diagnostic:
> root # cupstestppd /usr/share/ppd/Generic/Generic-PostScript_Printer-Postscript.ppd.gz
> /usr/share/ppd/Generic/Generic-PostScript_Printer-Postscript.ppd.gz: FAIL
>       **FAIL**  Bad Duplex choice Notcapable!
>                 REF: Page 122, section 5.17
> 
> With that, I changed to foomatic HP-LaserJet_4100-ljet4.ppd and problem solved. As a matter of curiosity, I did:
> 
> root # cupstestppd /usr/share/ppd/*/* 2>&1|grep FAIL
> 
> and _a_lot_ of ppds gave almost the same errors in ppd. Is this some bug?

foomatic is not a tool provided by the authors of CUPS, it is
a third-party utility, originating from www.linuxprinting.org.

You should report problems about foomatic and foomatic-PPDs at

   http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.foomatic.devel

Cheers,
Kurt