[cups.general] renderer command

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all your help so far. What does it mean in my case?
what should be my next steps to get the printer to work?

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> I have done some slight modifications on Foomatic now (in the Foomatic
> CVS on linuxprinting.org, both stable and unstable branches), that PPD
> files with blank *FoomaticRIPCommandLine cannot be generated any more.
> In this case now an error is issued and so frontends like the KDE
> Printing Manager should give an error message instead of creating a
> broken print queue.
>
> The blank *FoomaticRIPCommandLine was caused by a driver entry in the
> Foomatic database with an empty renderer command line prototype. This
> means that the driver entry has no driver execution information. In most
> cases the driver has several different GhostScript device names and the
> execution information resides in the Foomatic entry with another name.
> In the case of Gimp-Print there is no execution info as the execution
> ifo is supplied with the driver package. See the text of the driver
> entry in such cases (AFAIR the KDE Printing Manager has a button to
> display it).
>
>     Till
>
>
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> > Anonymous wrote:
> >
> >>I believe this was generated by the kde control center when
> >>configuring my printer. I have both the
> >>Gimp-Print package installed and the foomatic one.
> >>I'd try installing the printer straight from CUPS, but for some odd
> >>reason I can't seem to connect to
> >>localhost:631, although kcontrol does seem to connect there.
> >>[...]
> >
> >
> > There is a severe bug in your PPD. The line
> > *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: ""
> > defines an empty command to be executed by foomatic-rip, which is
> > illegal. Instead, if your printer is a native PostScript printer,
> > this keyword should *not* be present - foomatic-rip then uses the
> > cat command to pass on the print stream.
> >
> > As it is, foomatic-rip tries to execute an empty command which fails,
> > of course (and leads to a shell syntax error when using the
> > debug switch).
> >
> > Get a correct PPD.
> >
> > Helge
> >
> >
> >
> >
>