[1899] in Moira
Re: Towards Automatic Printer Driver Installation -- Printer Model Information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Fri Nov 30 13:47:53 2001
To: "Danilo Almeida" <dalmeida@MIT.EDU>
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 2001 13:47:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Danilo Almeida"'s message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:24:37 -0500"
Message-ID: <n91bshk85ad.fsf@hodge-podge.mit.edu>
"Danilo Almeida" <dalmeida@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Btw, I am still a little unclear on how hwtype is used. Is it
> pretty much strictly for figuring out how to communicate with the
> printer in regards to things other than the actual print job
> (i.e. status info as opposed to actual print jobs)?
Primarily, yes. The print server software has some capability to map
hwtype to supported content types for a given printer (ps, pcl, pjl,
...) and convert between them (e.g. printing a ps job to a pcl-only
printer), but Athena doesn't really use that part, having standardized
on Postscript for everything.
Mike Whitson
