[cups.general] 1.6x IPP printer detection

Kai Hendry hendry at webconverger.com
Thu Mar 14 08:09:55 PDT 2013


On 14 March 2013 22:59, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> Yes, although that type of deployment is 100% unsupported because printers.conf and the location of PPD files are implementation (and site configuration) details.  A better approach is to provide a shell script that "extracts" the PPD to a temporary file and uses the lpadmin command to add the printer.


Do you have an example for me to use as a guide please?

The PPD 9 times out of 10 is hopefully is going to be a generic
postscript template hopefully, right?



Thanks again,





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