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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