[cups.general] Specify the ppd-file in printers.conf

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> Helge Blischke wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> You have to put one copy of the PPD file for each printer into the
>>>> /etc/cups/ppd/ directory, and the name of the PPD file must be like
>>>> the printer name, plus the '.ppd' suffix.
>>>>
>>>> You can *try* to work with symlinks of the same name. I've never
>>>> tested this... but you are not allowed to complain if it doesn't
>>>> work, or works only with faults.
>>>
>>> No, you *must* *not* use symlinks, as the printername.ppd file gets
>>> modified if you change the PPD defaults, such as the default page
>>> size etc.
>>
>>
>> Actually, that was *one* of the potential faults I had in mind. But
>> *that* is not yet a sufficient reason to forbid this experiment, since
>> it may not be important to the case (some people have the same unchanged
>> PPD for years).
>>
> 
> Yes, but - in the case of symlinks - a PPD change for one printer
> applies the same change(s) to all printers the PPDs of which are
> linked to the same plain file. That is what I mean.


I know.  :-)

But this *may* (or may not) be one of the desired effects of symlinking
the PPDs.

The only way to get different defaults for each queue would lay with
entries in the lpoptions file(s).

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