cups standard drv-files

Franz Pfoertsch franz.pfoertsch at brose.net
Tue Mar 20 05:44:16 PDT 2007


Michael Sweet wrote:

>> 
>> Today I have to expand the zebra.ppd for printer with 8" Paper an have to
>> reenginer the zebra.drv file.
> 
> You can create a .drv file from PPD files using the ppdi utility
> in the DDK...
I have done it some times and the label-printer ppd seems to be generated
with cupsddk.
> 
>> It would be easy when the source of the zebra would be available.
> 

this meeans I have create the drv-file using ppdi.
> 
> We have plans of bundling .drv files with the DDK that will expand
> on the base PPDs in CUPS, possibly in the 1.2 release of the DDK.
> It is also possible that we may merge the DDK with the regular CUPS
> releases, making it possible to replace hand-generated PPDs with
> .drv files.
> 
this would be great.

regards
Franz




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