[cups.general] Re: CUPS Win2k driver ...

[Michael Sweet]

John wrote:
> Mike
> Can you outline what this driver will do ?

Everything that the 5.0 driver does, but in the new Win2k driver
form (so no NT support anymore); from the README:

     The CUPS driver adds the following features/options to the standard
     Windows driver property dialog:

	- Accurate page accounting
         - N-Up printing support
	- Banner/job-sheet support
	- Page label support
	- Job hold until and job priority support

The one difference is that the new driver doesn't have the same
control over the JCL option output, so PPD files containing JCL
options are now edited by cupsaddsmb to use CUPS job ticket comments
instead of PJL commands.  This allows the standard Windows driver,
the Adobe driver, and the CUPS driver to provide accurate page
accounting and support all of the JCL features.  The CUPS driver
itself is only required for the other features/options...

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