need a filter that produces postscript

[ekkard gerlach]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> ekkard gerlach wrote:
> 
>>I need a filter that produces postscript (5.x) only. Which filter in
>>CUPS do that?
>>
>>Why? - I want to use a samsung gdi printer installed under Suse 9.2 on a
>>Suse 8.2 machine. CUPS intelligent browsing function doesn't work
>>because Suse 8.2 with cups-1.1.18 sometimes generates thousands of
>>same printers in /etc/cups/printers.conf (endless loop). Browsing
>>printer queues is disabled for this reason. So I want to make printer
>>queue for Suse8.2 that produces postscript only, the I write a specific
>>backend e.g. /usr/lib/cups/mybackend that includes
>>    cat - > lp -h rex3 -d samsung
>>
>>tia
>>Ekkard
> 
> 
> Why not add this printer as an IPP printer on your SuSE 8.2 box as
> 	ipp://rex3/printers/samsung
> ?
> 
> Helge

Yes, you're right. Thats exactly what "cups browsing" makes 
automatically if it works ..  (and it works at least between same 
CUPS-versions!)
thx Ekkard