[cups.general] Help modifying HP PPD

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Dec 4 09:40:07 PST 2008


Tom Rymes wrote:
> Folks, due to the fact that the PPDs for my HP P4014 and 4250 printers are rejected by CUPS and cupstestppd, I am in the process of modifying those files to make CUPS happy. I'm running CentOS 4.7 with CUPS 1.2.12, and I tired HPLIP, but it seems a whole lot more cumbersome than making the PPDs work.
> 
> Anyhow, I have changed all of the lines that were causing problems because the main keyword was over 40 characters when the "Default" was added to it, so now I am fixing all of the options that do not have a default defined. (In the archives, I found reference to info saying that "Default<main keyword>" should be accepted by CUPS, but that that causes problems for localization, etc. Has this changed?)
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> Here is a sample section. What should I set "DefaultHPInstallableTraySize" to? I don't want to accidentally find that I have set the default to something other than "Printer Default" or something similar. Has anyone produced an edited PPD that passes cupstestppd?

"Unknown" is an acceptable value when the default is not known.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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