[cups.general] Why not "recommend" PPDs in the NickName?

[Till Kamppeter]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>> Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>> The CUPS-internal page accounting works with foomatic-rip, I have only
>> discovered now that at Ubuntu they have disabled it.
> 
> Have they given any reason for doing so? (Sometimes I'm really astonished about their st^H st^H.... strange decisions they take for certain packages.

They have added this comment to /etc/foomatic/filter.conf:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTE: Enabling this option may cause extra pages to be printed after each
# job as well as after banner pages, especially with generic
# PostScript printers.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looks like that only the generic PostScript printer case (Foomatic PPDs 
of driver "Postscript") does not work correctly. Here the page 
accounting code gets inserted but GhostScript is not called. The 
PostScript with accounting code gets into the printer.

Kurt, can you also try what happens if you print to a Ricoh printer (for 
example a Infotec) with the Ricoh-provided PostScript PPD from 
linuxprinting.org? In this case foomatic-rip is also used without 
GhostScript.

    Till




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