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Foomatic Filter Support
Patrick Powell
Mon Oct 20 03:47:01 PDT 2003
1. Overview
The foomatic-rip filter provides support for a wide range of printers,
but does not provide the extensive monitoring and communication support
of the ifhp filter. The combination of the foomatic filters and ifhp
makes a powerful combination.
The foomatic-rip filter and documentation can be obtained from:
www.linuxprintinging.org
The foomatic-rip filter uses a PostScript Printer Description (PPD)
file to do its configuration. The file appropriate to a printer
can be downloaded from www.linuxprintinging.org, either as an individual
file or as a group.
You can also use a regular PPD file appropriate to your printer.
Older versions of foomatic-rip did not have easy or simple support
for LPRng, but newer versions should have added support.
If your version of foomatic-rip does not have support the configuration
methods shown below, a modified version is available from:
http://www.lprng.com/foomatic
2. Configuring ifhp for foomatic
To use the foomatic-rip filter, you need to enable foomatic support
during configuration. By default, it is enabled:
configure --help
...
--disable-foomatic disable foomatic support
--with-foomatic-rip=PATH path to foomatic-rip
3. PPD File Specification
The PPD file can be specified in several ways:
lp:
:if=ifhp
:ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hp-laserjet-4.ppd
OR
lp:
:if=ifhp
:ifhp=model=hplj4,ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hp-laserjet-4.ppd
OR
in the ifhp.conf file:
[ hplj4 ]
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hp-laserjet-4.ppd
3. Testing PPD Files
You can test to see if your PPD file is compatible by using:
foomatic-rip -d --ppd /usr/share/ppd/hp-laserjet-4.ppd
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