[cups.general] How to define generic postscript printer when using cups-1.4.2-7

[Michael Sweet]

On Dec 6, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Ido Levy wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I am running CUPS 1.4.2-7 on top of Fedora Core 12.
> 
> In earlier versions of CUPS I used lpadmin command with the following parameters to define a generic PostScript printer:
> 
> lpadmin -p PostScript -v ps:/tmp -E -P /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd.gz -D "PostScript" -L "localhost"
> 
> On this version of CUPS the file /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd.gz doesn't exists. I found on the documentation reference to generic post script driver -
> 
> lpinfo -m | grep -i generic.ppd
> drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd Generic PostScript Printer
> 
> but I am not sure how to use it when defining the printer using lpadmin command


lpadmin -p PostScript -v ps:/tmp -E -m drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd -D "PostScript" -L "localhost"

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer