Kurt Pfeifle writes: > What sort of PPD files?
PPD files for HP81xx printers. > What was the source for those? Did they ship with the Linux > distro? Which distro? Were they downloaded manually? I think they were provided with the distro; Mandrake. I started using Mandrake with 6 and stopped with 8.1. > Were they PPDs as provided by http://www.linuxprinting.org/? > Were they CUPS-O-Matic- or PPD-O-Matic-generated ones? > [PPD-O-Matic ones in general are "better".] Were they > PPD-files for PostScript- or for non-PostScript printers? For PS printers -- specifically, HP81xx printers. > In general, you should never need to "hand-edit" a CUPS-PPD > file (unless you really know what you do and you want to tune > things like page-margins etc., for applications that read the > margins from the PPD, etc.) -- and I personally never needed > to do this, neither for PostScript printers nor for > non-PostScript printers... I had to, because the CUPS drivers weren't connecting to the printer directly; they were connecting to a remote queue only, which told them nothing about the available printer features. The CUPS configuration utils I was using refused to let me set the features (specifically that there was a duplexer available, and that it should be on by default, and that there was a tray 4 large bin available). > > for our print devices so that the local CUPS config utils > > would know about all the options available to them > > (i.e. duplexing). > > This may only mean you had the wrong PPD installed for your > printer... Nope. It was the right PPD. > > Not pretty. > > > > If you were right, lots more Linux CUPS users would be > dissappointed too. But this is hardly an occurance heard off, > fortunately.... <shrug> I was unable to find any assistance for my issue at the time, but once I figured out what was required, it wasn't (for me) a huge trial to fix. By 'not pretty' I meant that it wasn't a terribly pretty solution for most people to have to do. On the whole, I found CUPS to be quite useful, but it certainly wasn't 'plug and play' for me. -- Viktor Haag : Software & Information Design : Research In Motion +--+ "In all fairness, I'm not sure we know about the slithered part. Oh no! I'm sure it frisked around like a fluffy lamb!" ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
