Re: HPLIP: equivalent of ptal-devid wanted

Tim Waugh wrote:
>>To determine whether a printer is supported by HPLIP already before
>>installing/starting HPLIP I match the '<model name="...">' in
>>/usr/share/hplip/data/xml/models.xml against the "MODEL" or "MDL"
>>field of the detected ID string. The HPLIP RPM I have made in a way
>>that /usr/share/hplip/data/xml/models.xml is in a separate RPM and
>>this separate RPM is always installed. printerdrake installes the
>>rest of HPLIP when it detects a supported printer.
> 
> 
> That's clever, but isn't that information already in foomatic?
> 

Foomatic only contains the info which PostScript->Printers-Own-Language 
filter is needed. For HP printers it is usually HPIJS for inkjets or 
PCL-5 devices, "pxlmono" for PCL-6 devices, "pnm2ppa" for the old PPA 
devices, and "Postscript" (with manufacturer-supplied PPD) for 
PostScript devices. HPLIP is independent of this. It works with most not 
to old HP printers, also PostScript or PCL-6 models which do not need 
HPIJS. HPLIP is a low-level driver framework which serves for accessing 
bi-di functions, as 4-edge full bleed, ink level and status check, 
nozzle cleaning, scanning, memory card reading. And this is completely 
independent of the conversion of incoming PostScript to the printer's 
language.

    Till



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