cups support to Generic-Postscript printers

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Nov 16 02:02:28 PST 2011


chandrashekar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How to add a printer from commandline by setting make and model of printer
> to postscript, Generic postscript driver. THis we can add using
> webinterface, but if we are accessing via commandline how to do it? If I
> have postscript emulation its not required to add PPD file for it ?
> 
> Regards,
> chandrashekar

see:
man lpadmin
You specify the PPD for the printer by the -P option.

The web-interface dialogs about make and model are intended to aid the 
user/administrator to select the proper PPD; using the lpadmin command 
requires the user/administrator to know what he/she is doing.

Helge





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