[cups.general] Installing PPD files without CUPS

Norm Jacobs Norm.Jacobs at Sun.COM
Thu Jun 5 08:35:25 PDT 2008


FWIW,
    On Solaris, LP uses foomatic-rip + various PPDs + various drivers 
(ghostscript, gimp-print, hpijs, ...) to provide support for a number of 
printers.

    -Norm

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> This no problem. You can use the universal print filter foomatic-rip to 
> use PPD files with any printing system and even without printing system.
>
> See http://www.openprinting.org/foomatic.html for more info.
>
>     Till
>
> nivi wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to install PPD files without installing CUPS?
>>
>> If we can install and use PPD files without CUPS, please help me by specifying the commands.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     
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