[cups] CUPS driver for Xerox Phaser 6600

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:59:48 +0100 "The CUPS user discussion list." <cups at cups.org> wrote:

> 
> On Thu 19 Jul 2018 at 09:13:33 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Jul 19 02:34 Doug Ritchie wrote (excerpt):
> > > doesn't cups just needs the PPD file
> > 
> > it depends.
> > 
> > Only if it is a real PostScript printer
> > then the PPD file alone is sufficient,
> > see the sections about "PPD files ..."
> > and "Printer drivers ..." in
> > https://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing
> 
> Its specs have "True Adobe® Postscript® 3™" in Language Support.

In which case "Generic Postscript Printer" should work, so long as its I/O 
interface is something standard.

>  
> > > > CUPS driver for a Xerox Phaser 6600DN printer
> > 
> > The German specifications for a "Phaser 6600" at
> > https://www.xerox.de/office-produkte/drucker/farbdrucker/phaser-6600/spec-dede.html
> > read (excerpts)
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Seitenbeschreibungssprachen (PDL)
> > PCL 5, PCL 6, PDF-Emulation, True Adobe PostScript 3, XPS
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > "Seitenbeschreibungssprachen" means "printer languages"
> > and "PDL" means the same "Page Description Language", cf.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_description_language
> > and the German
> > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitenbeschreibungssprache
> > 
> > This indicates it is a perfectly well supported printer
> > for Linux and any other normal operating system, cf.
> > https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Purchasing_a_Printer_and_Compatibility
> > 
> > With "normal operating system" I mean operating systems
> > that provide built-in generic printing functionality.
> > Fro example I guess some smartphone operating systems
> > may not provide that but rely on whatever external stuff
> > like some kind of cloud printing services or things like that.
> 
> The printer also supports PDF Emulation and AirPrint. which makes it a
> good candidate for driverless printing, depending on the OS being used.
> 

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