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Old 06-25-2014
PPD conumdrum
Hello,

Long time without posting to the Unix forum.

I'm currently supporting a RHEL 5.8 environment. Our site is a Konica Minolta shop. We are setting up back-end printing and for the most part it's all well. We've been having issues with a particular model: C364 colour printer. It prints Ok if the regular trays are selected but it won't print from the side tray aka bypass tray. We have been provided with a PPD that supposedly works fine with CUPS 1.3 but it won't work with 1.4. The vendor won't give us a 1.4 version of the PPD. The moment we try to print to the side tray, CUPS doesn't like some of the parameters and shuts the printer down.

Does anybody have any suggestion at this point?

Thanks much and good day to all,

Fabio Gil
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foomatic-ppdfile

FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual					       FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)

NAME

       foomatic-ppdfile - Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo

SYNOPSIS

       foomatic-ppdfile [-w] [-d <driver>] -p <printerid>
       foomatic-ppdfile [-A] [-P pattern]
       foomatic-ppdfile -h

DESCRIPTION

       The first form of the foomatic-ppdfile to compute the spooler-independent Foomatic PPD file for any valid printer/driver combo available in
       the Foomatic database, both for printing with foomatic-rip(1) and for applications/clients being able to access the printer's options.  The
       PPD file is returned on standard ouput.	If the driver is not specified, the default driver is used.

       The  second form of the foomatic-ppdfile program will search the printer database and return either all printer entries or those whose name
       and/or model information match a regular expression.

       The last form prints a help message and exits.

   Options
       -d drivername
	    The (optional) driver name to use.	If the driver name is not supplied, the default or first driver in the printers compatible  driver
	    list is used.

       -p   printer id The printer id.

       -w   Return a PPD file that conforms to the Microsoft Windows format limitations.

       -A   Return all printer entries in the database.

       -Ppattern
	    Return all printer entries in the database which match the regular expression.

       SEE ALSO
	      foomatic-rip(1)

EXIT STATUS

       foomatic-ppdfile returns 0 on success, 1 otherwise.

AUTHOR

       Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.

       Modified and updated by Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>.

BUGS

       None so far.

       Please post bug reports on

       http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic

Foomatic Project						    2001-05-07						       FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)