Re: Printing issues

FROM : Dave Camp
DATE : Mon Apr 25 17:55:03 2005

On Apr 22, 2005, at 6:16 PM, billmonk wrote:

>> won't know what different receipt printer manufacturers may be
>> calling their custom receipt page sizes.
>>

>
> There's no PPD, but a hexdump of the StarPM file (inside the 
> StarPM.plugin bundle) reveals interesting names such as
> "104mm x Long Receipt" and "72mm x Long Receipt" etc.
>
> Tiger may change things, but NSPrinter doc currently says "An 
> NSPrinter object describes a printer’s capabilities as defined in 
> its PPD file". If there's no PPD, and you want fine control, I 
> think you may be stuck using Carbon Print Manager, or the print 
> dialogs (which are implemented in Carbon PM).


The OS generates PPD files for all Tioga based printer drivers (at 
least ones that have a print queue). I think they wind up in /private/
var/tmp/. I don't have an inkjet hooked up a the moment to verify 
this, but that's what I dug out of my printing list archvies...

Dave


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