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

[Michael R Sweet]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 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.

Foomatic-rip is not needed for most printer drivers.  Avoid Foomatic
if you can...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer