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Color driver for PPA DeskJets. It can run PPA printers at 600dpi in color or mono. In the version 1.0.4 many bugs are fixed. All paper sizes known to Ghostscript up to 11x17 (DeskJet 1000C) are supported.
There is an installer package to use this driver under Mac OS X.
IMPORTANT: This is a driver for "host-based" printing: its output should usually be streamed directly to a local printer port on the same host that runs the driver. The output may be large: writing it to disk (as PDQ does) is also not recommended. (PDQ users should not use the PDQ-matic-generated driver because of this. A correct PDQ driver is supplied with pnm2ppa).
Printing system interfaces
- PPD-O-Matic
- Automagic PPD file generator for
- CUPS (documentation),
- PPR (documentation),
- LPD/LPRng/GNUlpr (documentation),
- PDQ (documentation),
- Spooler-less printing (documentation),
- PPD aware applications/clients (documentation),
Important for Windows clients: The CUPS PostScript driver for Windows has a bug which makes it choking on PPD files which contain GUI texts longer than 39 characters. Therefore it is recommended to use Adobe's PostScript driver. If you still want to use the CUPS driver, please mark "GUI texts limited to 39 characters" to get an appropriate PPD file.
Execution details
- Information on how this driver is used, independent of a particular printing system