How to define generic postscript printerwhen using cups-1.4.2-7

Ido Levy idol at il.ibm.com
Tue Dec 8 07:15:50 PST 2009


> On Dec 6, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> > ...
> > You need to compile the PPD from the source file:
> >=20
> > drv cat drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd > =
> /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd
> >=20
> > See man drv for the details.
>
>
> No, you don't need to (or want to) do this - just pass the drv: name =
> with the "-m" option and cupsd will do what's necessary.
>
> Also, the "drv" driver interface program was merged with the =
> cups-driverd helper in CUPS 1.4.x - you'd need to run the ppdc command =
> to get PPD files...
>
> ___________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>
>
>
Michael

Thanks Much for all the answers

Ido




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