[cups.general] Migrate printers.conf

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Thu Oct 15 04:00:28 PDT 2009


Hello,

On Oct 14 15:02 Adam wrote (shortened):
> moved the printcap and printers.conf to another server.
> How do I move the Printer driver.

Have in mind that PPD files are no printer drivers.

Only if you have true PostScript printers, the PPD file
alone is usually sufficient (but there exist exceptions
out there in the cruel world where even PPDs for
PostScript printers contain "*cupsFilter:" entries
which may call a third-party non-standard filter).

For more information see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
in particular the sections "PPD Files" versus "The Filter"
and what I wrote about "Never copy configuration files
from other systems..."


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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