Find CUPS Driver Automatically

keens312 keens312 at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 10 16:46:53 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.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> ______________________________________________________________________
> >>> 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.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>
The Auto slection works fine on Leopard.

But not work for Tiger, any suggestion?

Thanks
Keene





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