<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Till,<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 24, 2021, at 2:21 PM, Till Kamppeter <<a href="mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com" class="">till.kamppeter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On 24/02/2021 18:48, Michael Sweet wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">... which is why I suggested you create a registry for printer applications so that you can map a printer to one or more printer applications that you then run "autoadd" on.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Printer Applications should have a way to query the full list of printers they support by model and also the full list of generic (for example by-PDL) support options they have. So some "Printer Application finder" tool could find whether support for a certain printer is available and then add the printer (with driver "auto") on the right Printer Application.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>The "drivers" sub-command from PAPPL almost has everything needed:<div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">testsuite/testmainloop drivers</div><div class="">pwg_2inch-203dpi-black_1                PWG 2inch Label 203DPI Black</div><div class="">pwg_2inch-300dpi-black_1                PWG 2inch Label 300DPI Black</div><div class="">pwg_4inch-203dpi-black_1                PWG 4inch Label 203DPI Black</div><div class="">pwg_4inch-300dpi-black_1                PWG 4inch Label 300DPI Black</div><div class="">pwg_common-300dpi-black_1               PWG Office 300DPI Black</div><div class="">pwg_common-300dpi-sgray_8               PWG Office 300DPI sGray 8-bit</div><div class="">pwg_common-300dpi-srgb_8                PWG Office 300DPI sRGB 8-bit</div><div class="">pwg_common-300dpi-600dpi-black_1        PWG Office 300DPI 600DPI Black</div><div class="">pwg_common-300dpi-600dpi-sgray_8        PWG Office 300DPI 600DPI sGray 8-bit</div><div class="">pwg_common-300dpi-600dpi-srgb_8         PWG Office 300DPI 600DPI sRGB 8-bit</div><div class="">pwg_fail-300dpi-black_1                 PWG Always Fails 300DPI Black</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">hp-printer-app drivers</div><div class="">hp_deskjet                              HP DeskJet</div><div class="">hp_generic                              Generic PCL</div><div class="">hp_laserjet                             HP LaserJet</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We can extend this to report the 1284 device IDs (which will give you make and model separate from the driver description string along with the command set(s)), and/or provide the information in a more machine-friendly format.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">________________________<br class="">Michael Sweet<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>