query mechanism should include PPD information

Norm Jacobs — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:14:59 -0000

The printer query mechanism available in the PAPI asks
the print
service for data and blindly sends it back the the
requestor. For the
most part, this is fine, but In the case of the Solaris
LP IPP server
and the CUPS server, PPD files can be associated with
print queues
and the data can be retreived via IPP. The IPP
implementation of
papiPrinterQuery() should make an attempt at retreiving and
digestings any associated PPD data to make it easier
for applications
to find out more about the printers, their queues and
their capabilities.
A comment in some mail that I received from dparsons at
debian dot org
prompted this.

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query mechanism should include PPD information