[cups.general] CUPS without raster filter

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Aug 19 08:40:33 PDT 2008


shermin wrote:
> Hi,
> I developed my custom backend and i dont want to use any raster filter for sending the cmds to the printer as i was trying to send it directly through the backend.But how will  i specify in ppd not to use my filter but my backend for *cupsFilter.If i comment that line in ppd always file type is "application/postscript".

Use "-" as the filter, so that CUPS will send raster data to your
backend:

     *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 100 -"

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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