[cups.general] Communication between CUPS & native linux printer driver.

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 22, at 2:46, Ved Prakash wrote:
> As per my understanding CUPS acts as an intermediate between  
> application(print task) & linux printer driver "usblp". Am i right??
> Or it really contains drivers?? Think every thing from usb printer  
> point of view.

No, you still need the kernel usblp driver.  The CUPS backend simply  
knows how to access all the features of the usblp driver (as opposed  
to, say, a port9100 network printer or a parallel port printer).

>  3. One more thing suppose i am going to use a brand new vendor usb  
> printer then only ppd file of that printer is enough to store in / 
> usr/share/cups/model as i have read in on of the reply in this forum.


Generally.  But if the printer doesn't speak PostScript then you will  
need to install foomatic-rip as well.

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