How do develope a New Printer Driver

[Michael Sweet]

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On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Zebra wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>    I am new to Linux Printer Driver Developement,i assigned to  
> develope a Card Printer Driver.please Guide me the step by step  
> developement of printer driver, and also i want to communicate with  
> printer.please give me the guidence to do so.


Start by reading:

     http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/raster-drivers.html

Then follow the links to the related guides for Filter programming and  
PPD files.

The CUPS source also includes sample drivers for a variety of printers  
- look for all of the rasterto*.c and rasterto*.cxx source files.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer