[cups.development] CUPS Driver Help - Copy generation

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Jun 3 10:57:39 PDT 2004


Brenden J. Bain wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been writing a printer driver for my old printer using CUPS. The
> printer driver works fine, my question is about copy generation.
> 
> In my ppd definition for the printer I have added the line:
> 
> *cupsManualCopies: True
> 
> To my, albeit very limited, knowledge this makes the "pstops" filter to
> output the same page a certain number of times so that drivers to not
> have to worry about copies.
> 
> However, it appears to me I still have to worry about the case when the
> input comes raw from a file rather than through standard input. What can
> we do in these cases? Is it even worth worrying about?

Nope, raw (application/vnd.cups-raw) file copies are handled by the
backend, since no filters are invoked.  If you get an
application/vnd.cups-postscript file for printing, then by definition
it must be correctly generated for the destination printer.

Either way, you don't have to worry about it.

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