Find CUPS Driver Automatically

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Jul 8 09:44:37 PDT 2008


keens312 wrote:
>>> keens312 wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> The CUPS driver cannot be loaded automatically.
>>>>
>>>> In Tioga model, if driver deployed, when printer power on or user select the printer in printer center, OSX will search the correct driver and use it.
>>>>
>>>> In CUPS model, I have to "select a driver to use...". Users have to do more mouse work to found the driver.
>>>>
>>>> My questions is that is it possible to make the CUPS driver has the same machinism like Tiago to find driver automatically?
>>> You need to provide matching Product and/or 1284DeviceID values in
>>> your PPD file.
>>>
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>>> ______________________________________________________________________
>>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>> Hi Micahel,
>>
>> It works great, thanks very much.
>>
>> Attribute "1284DeviceID: "MANUFACTURER:Hewlett-Packard;MODEL:HP LaserJet P1005"
>>
>> Keene
>>
> Hi Michael,
> 
> One Drv file can generate multiple ppd files.
> 
> Usually we generate PPD for each series.
> 
> But each model has its own unique 1284 device id.
> 
> For adding 1284DeviceID, we have to generate PPD for each model.
> 
> Is there a better solution? we don't like to much PPDs.

Unfortunately, Adobe only allows a single 1284DeviceID keyword per
PPD, however you can also list multiple Product strings which are
also used for matching.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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