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

Tim Johnson tim at johnsons-web.com
Thu Jul 28 08:26:51 PDT 2011


* Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD) <Martin.Schuster1 at infineon.com> [110727 23:29]:
> > 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.
  :) Thank you!
-- 
Tim 
tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com





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