[cups.general] CUPS with Windows PPD files?

Adrian Gschwend ktk at netlabs.org
Thu Aug 14 11:33:14 PDT 2008


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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> Given the sheer number of non-pedantically-conforming vendor PPDs,  
> this is more or less equivalent to not supporting vendor PPDs.  Which  
> leaves me with the question of how one is supposed to use these  
> printers with CUPS, given that foomatic doesn't provide PPDs for them.

it's not CUPS fault if the vendors are too stupid to ship some working
PPDs. I'm working at a University and we had the same issue and we were
annoying the vendor constantly so they started testing & fixing the PPDs
on their own by now.

Now all is fine.

cu

Adrian


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