[cups] CUPS 2 on RHEL 7

[Jörg Thümmler]

Am 12.07.21 um 22:29 schrieb Johnnie W Adams:
> Am I entirely wrong about the better printer driver available for CUPS 2?
> 
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:10 AM Johnnie W Adams <jxadams at ualr.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Bryan,
>>
>>       What I need is not CUPS per se but access to the better printer
>> drivers.
>>
>>       My understanding is that CUPS 2 includes an essentially universal
>> printer driver. I'm being eaten alive by printer requests (they are NOT my
>> strong suit) and the machine we Linux print from can't go to RHEL 8 till
>> next year at the earliest. Thus my willingness to go outside the standard
>> repos and maybe compile code.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>       John A
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:03 AM Bryan Mason <bjmason at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 16:23 +0000, John Adams wrote:
>>>> Hi, folks,
>>>>
>>>>       I don't find an rpm for this on EPEL or in RedHat's repos. Does
>>>> CUPS 2 run on RHEL 7?
>>>
>>> RHEL 7 ships with CUPS 1.6.3 (one of the latest versions available when
>>> RHEL 7 was initially introduced), with some security and bug fixes
>>> backported from later CUPS versions.  CUPS 2.2.6 ships with RHEL 8.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, what features/fixes do you need in CUPS 2.2.x that
>>> aren't in RHEL 7?
>>>
>>> ~ Bryan
>>>
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> 

Hi,

forgot to mention, the ppd files are part of the windows drivers. 
Installing such a driver on a usual windows gives you the chance to copy 
the ppd onto your linux machine...

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jth