[cups] Push Mac Drivers from Linux Server

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:53:25 -0500 "The CUPS user discussion list." <cups at cups.org> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 13:51 -0500, Matt Hanson wrote:
> > When using CUPS on Linux as a print server is it possible to specify which
> > driver to push for Macintosh clients?
> > I know there is plenty of documentation for Windows clients, but I have not
> > been able to find any for OS X.
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I do not know much of anything about Mac OS/X printing architecture....
> except that I thought it uses CUPS?
> 
> If it is using CUPS then publishing the correct PPD from the server
> should be enough - just as with LINUX clients.  Printing should pretty
> much 'just work' without all the driver nonsense.

Esentually, the printers published via CUPS to *Unix* machines (including 
MacOSX and Linux) appear as 'PostScript' printers.  The *server* uses a 
PostScript-to-bitmap driver (usually with GhostScript on Linux machines).

> 

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