[MacTUG] Querying printer for its driver

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

If you figure that one out, let me know! I do a similar kind of thing for my labs. Here one of the printers I set up…
lpadmin -p mad_colour_ricoh -v lpd://129.97.54.52/mad_colour_ricoh -D mad_colour_ricoh -P /Library/Lab/PPDs/mad_colour_ricoh -E
I cheat in that I have a folder of PPDs in a folder in /Library where I rename the PPD to the name of the printer. I do that partly to keep it figured out in my brain and partly because I do not want my PPDs changed by an update without me knowing ;-)

But if I could match the PPD easily to the printer, I would automate it more and stop squirrelling PPDs away.

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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people/donald-duff-mccracken

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From: Dani Roloson <daroloso at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:daroloso at uwaterloo.ca>>
Date: Thursday, 4 July, 2013 1:38 PM
To: "mactug at lists.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug at lists.uwaterloo.ca>" <mactug at lists.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug at lists.uwaterloo.ca>>
Subject: [MacTUG] Querying printer for its driver

I've got the hang of configuring printers using

lpadmin -p ljp_3016 -E -v "lpd://print.math.uwaterloo.ca/ljp_3016" -P '/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP LaserJet 600 M601 M602 M603.gz' -o printer-is-shared=false -o HPOption_Duplexer=True

but I want to step back further and figure out the PPD from the command line instead of the GUI.

Any ideas?

Dani
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