[cups.general] How to determine the printer driver being used on ubuntu

[Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD)]

On 2011-07-27 17:55, Tim Johnson wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I need to determine what printer driver is currently being used by
> the printer that I have connected to my computer.
> 
> How can I get this information?
>
/etc/cupd/ppd/[printername].ppd
is the PPD-file. This should be enough for a Postscript-printer.

Other printers will have some 'cupsFilter' lines in there, that
point to filters that are used to generate whatever your printer
needs.

cheers,
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