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Re: [PLUG] Using "Foreign" PPD files for Postscript Printers
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On Thursday 26 November 2009 11:31:12 Casey Bralla wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying a Lexmark C543dn color laser printer. This is a
> postscript printer, so should be fairly simple to use with Linux.
> Unfortunately, however, it's not in the foomatic database. I'm worried
> that I may not be able to get the full benefit of the printer's features
> without the full database entry. (the duplex printing option may not
> work, for example).
>
> Lexmark provides a PPD file for it. Theoretically, this will make it easy
> to use, but I'm skeptical of how much of cludge this might be.
>
> Has anybody ever used one of these "foreign" PPD files to make a printer
> work? Any problems doing so?
>
All the time.
Whenever I want to connect a Linux box to an "unsupported" Dell printer at
work, I mount the Mac dmg file that comes on the printer driver disk on a Mac,
extract and save the PPD, and install it on the Linux boxes.
Never had a problem.
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Art Alexion
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