OKI Data manufacturer string as a bad manufacturer name
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Tue Jan 19 22:05:17 PST 2010
On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Rodel Tancio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would just like to ask if there's any chance to remove the checking for "Oki Data" string in cupstestppd.
> The current tool will fail and prompt if we will use "Oki Data" as the manufacturer name.
> This is a request from a vendor company and we will greatly appreciate if you can do something on this by removing the constraint on using "Oki Data" as the manufacturer string.
>
> Also, we would like to ask for some history why this string is restricted.
Read the PPD spec, Page 211, table D.1 - "Oki" is the required manufacturer string and other strings will cause problems...
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
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