How to add vendor cups.ppd to RH printer config list?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Dec 21 08:48:16 PST 2005


jared_middleton at alliedtelesyn.com wrote:
> ...
> What do I do with the vendor provided PPD file so that the driver is
> selectable in the Red Hat printer config tool?  I want the driver to
> be ready and available for easily creating multiple new printers
> based on it.
 > ...

Unfortunately, Red Hat chose not to use the standard CUPS mechanism
for managing printer drivers.  You'll have to ask Red Hat for
documentation on doing this, and perhaps to ask them to use the
CUPS-Get-PPDs request rather than depending on Foomatic for
everything...

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