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Making a ppd driver for Minolta 3100 on CUPS/Ubuntu
Hello

I have a Minolta QMS Magicolor 3100 printer. A driver is available (Minolta-magicolor_3100-Postscript.ppd) for Linux, installed using foomatic, but it does not work properly. The resolution is at it's lowest and a poor quality grainy print results. The printer works fine under Windows XP using Minolta's mq3100np.ppd driver. When I compare the Linux CUPS and the Windows driver files I see similarities but also a big difference in content.

I would like to make a Linux CUPS based ppd to drive the Minolta 3100 printer.

I have emailed Minolta and have their consent to write an open source driver based on their mq3100np.ppd driver.

Does anybody have any knowledge of writing postscript driver files for Linux and could they point me in a suitable direction to learn how to do it?

Regards
Bob
 
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foomatic-compiledb

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

NAME

       foomatic-compiledb - Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database

SYNOPSIS

       foomatic-compiledb [ -t type ] [ -f ] [ -j n ] [  driver ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       foomatic-compiledb generates all PPD files or Foomatic combo XML files for all possible printer/driver combos, or only for a selected range
       of drivers.  It generally should not be necessary except for people who want to generate a set of Foomatic data files for distribution. For
       configuring single printers foomatic-ppdfile(1) and especially foomatic-configure(1) will automagically compute just what they need.

   Options
       -t type	 Output file type, either ppd or xml.

       -f	 Force: Write into the destination directory even if it already exists.

       -j n	 n = number of work processes to run

       driver ...
		 only generate data files for these driver(s)

SEE ALSO

       foomatic-ppdfile(1),foomatic-configure(1)

EXIT STATUS

       foomatic-compiledb returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

AUTHORS

       Manfred	Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> and Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net> for the foomatic project using output from the
       associated binary.

BUGS

       Existing files are always conserved instead of older files being overwritten. So deleting the destination directory (rm -rf dir) and  call-
       ing foomatic-compiledb without the -f option is recommended.

       Please post bug reports on

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

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