[cups.general] reading data from raw printer

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Thu Jul 5 01:54:51 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 09:32 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> And even for a queue with a usual current driver it may not work
> because I assume that the usual current drivers do not yet
> advertise support for the CUPS command file format.
> At least this is how I understand
> http://localhost:631/help/spec-command.html
> "Printer drivers advertise support for the CUPS command file format
>  by providing a filter for the application/vnd.cups-command file type."

It just means you need a line in the PPD saying what filters to run for
the command files.

The command interface has the potential to be really useful, not least
for things like finding out ink levels.  It's just that no-one seems to
be using it or understand how it works...

Tim.
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