PPD for raw printer to implement filter script

Paul screwgie at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 12:16:36 PST 2005


> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:09:13PM -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> > >
> > I don't know anything about System V interface scripts, so I
> > probably don't want to go down that route. I want a generic PPD so
> > that I can insert the cupsfilter line to call a filter.
>
> problem is raw printers' cupsFilter lines are ignored
>
> what you want is probably a CUPS backend, so it is never bypassed.
>
> bye
>
> Jerome Alet
>

Maybe I am not understanding a key concept here......but if I have a generic PPD file, I will be creating the printer under that now, not as raw anymore. It will still be a raw printer, but won't be defined as such in cups.




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