Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 20:47:24 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CUPS PPD Message-ID: <20170802204724.2d0568fa@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <02b89d54534d4f9dbe44df076e918572.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <02b89d54534d4f9dbe44df076e918572.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 17:29:19 -0400 "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > We have several old Lexmark T632 printers which OpenPrinting.org > describes as 'paperweights'. Notwithstanding OPO's value judgement we > use these things as network printers for a wide variety of computers, > some of which are much older than the printers. One of their uses is > to produce cheques and to replace them for this purpose requires > re-certification of the replacements. So, they are not going anywhere > until they absolutely no longer work. > > Under CentOS-6 we use CUPS -1.4.2 with a PPD for these printers which > was sourced from some forgotten place but which works very well for > us. On FreeBSD we use CUPS -2.2.3 and the PPD we have works not quite > so well. It works to the extent that the printers print but we cannot > 'see' their advanced features in the CUPS Browser. There are fields > created in the page display which are likely for this but they are not > populated with options. What page are you looking at? I see options for my printer when I go to Printers, select my printer and then choose Set Default Options in the Administration drop down menu. There are multiple pages there: General, Installed Options,... Can you upload the PPD somewhere?
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