How to define generic postscript printer when using cups-1.4.2-7

[Helge Blischke]

Ido Levy wrote:

>> 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
>> >
>> > I would appreciate your advice
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Ido
>>
>> You need to compile the PPD from the source file:
>>
>> drv cat drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd >
>> /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd
>>
>> See man drv for the details.
>>
>> Helge
>>
> 
> Helge
> 
> Thank you for the quick response.
> 
> Does drv command shipped with CUPS PRM, I can read the man but can't find
> the command in the system.
> 
> Also do you know what is the reason that
> /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd.gz was omitted from CUPS RPM ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ido

I just learned (see the response by Michael Sweet in this thread) that you 
only need to supply the drv:... URI in your lpadmin command. cupsd then 
generates the PPD from the respecive source file.

Helge