Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> So, my question is, can a printer that only requires a PPD file
> give me feedback like presence, paper status etc or do I need
> to write a CUPS backend driver to get those features.

Asking in the cups.development forum:

    http://cups.org/newsgroups.php?s3895+gcups.development+v3913+T0

that proper feedback is possible from just a PPD file, but that
the USB backend on Linux lacks this feature.

Erik
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