[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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