printcap.local and cups

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:06:40PM +0200, Mattias Brändström wrote:

> into printcap.local and restart lpd with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart". 
> So far so good except that as I understand it Fedora don't use lpd but 
> it uses cups. And to make matters worse I have heard rumours that cups 
> ignores /etc/printcap.local. :-)

CUPS is not driven by printcap files at all.  It writes /etc/printcap
based on the configuration data in /etc/cups -- it doesn't read it at
all.

> My question is this: is there any way that I can tell cups about the 
> information in the above printcap? If so, how do I do that?

I think you need to make a PPD file containing a *cupsFilter: line for
the filter program.

Tim.
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