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On the next screen you will see a description of the driver selected previously. This description is extracted from the actual PPD used.

Warning

For a real PostScript® printer never try to install a “Foomatic” or “Gimp-PrintPPD, even if it is offered. You won't be happy with it. Instead find the original PPD from the manufacturer, preferably the one written for Windows® NT and use it.

Some Linux® distributions have supplied for CUPS every possible combination of Ghostscript filters and “foomaticPPD files they could find on the net. Many of these are quite useless; they were generated a year ago, when the people at www.linuxprinting.org began their first experiments with supplying third party PPDs for CUPS. Although dubbed “Alpha” at the time, these started to take on a life of their own and can now be found at various places on the net, doing CUPS no favors.

If you are not sure which ones to use go to:

And ask for help. At a later stage, a document detailing the differences between the different driver and PPD models will appear at http://kdeprint.sourceforge.net/ Watch out for this!

Via the Other... button you are able to retrieve any PPD located somewhere on your available file system.

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