PDF capable printers in CUPS?

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu May 5 11:34:20 PDT 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just purchased Lexmark T430D printer which is capable of printing PDF format files directly. How can one teach the CUPS system that there is no need to convert PDF to PS before sending the job to this printer?
> 
> regards, Michal.

Insert a line

*cupsFilter: "application/pdf 0 -"

near the beginning of the pritner's PPD.

But I'm not sure if you will any job attributes get through unless the
printer
speaks IPP.

Helge

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