[Foomatic] My Lexmark X125 driver needs to read from the printer
Kurt Pfeifle
kpfeifle at danka.de
Tue Jan 13 12:31:55 PST 2004
Roger Leigh wrote:
> Absolutely correct. This is why CUPS separates the printing into a
> "filter chain":
>
> PS file (application/postscript)
> | pstops
> V
> Normalised PS (application/postscript)
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| This would be "application/vnd.cups-postscript" !
| (It has all the appropriate commandline options
| as well as PPD-options merged into the PS file
| at this stage)
|
> | pstoraster
> V
> Raster page image (application/vnd.cups-raster)
> | filter e.g. rastertoprinter (Gimp-Print), rastertohp etc.
> V
> Printer-specific data
> | backend e.g. parallel, serial, usb
> V
> Printer device node and the real hardware
Cheers,
Kurt
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