FW: Correction: Re: lycoris desktop/lx and hp printers

[Raj Singh]

Thanks for the info.  I'll have to figure something else out.
Raj

Michael Goffioul wrote:

>>With KUPS you probably mean the KDE Printing Manager
>>(http://printing.kde.org/). It is a bug in KDE Print that a field which
>>is not intended to be human-consumable is used for building the GUI
>>presentation of the data. The field used for sorting the PPDs by
>>manufacturer is the "*Manufacturer" field of the PPD files. According to
>>Adobe's PPD specification this is the manufacturer's name how the
>>printyer reports it back when scanning the ports (parallel, USB) for
>>printers. So this name is not necssarily equal for all printers of one
>>manufacturer, especially not for HP, but also not for Kyocera ("Kyocera"
>>and "Kyocera-Mita"). A possibility is to take a human-consumable item,
>>as the "*NickName" and take the first work of it as the manufacturer's
>>name, but this is also not 100% reliable. So one will probably need a
>>table of manufacturer names containing all known variants of them.
>>    
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>KDEPrint tries to do its best to find the manufacturer name, but of
>course it's not perfect:
>- it's case-insensitive: HEWLETT-PACKARD == Hewlett-Packard
>- if the PPD file doesn't have *Manufacturer, KDEPrint uses the first
>  word of *Nickname
>These 2 things already do a good jobs, but of course if names are
>different (like HP and Hewlett-Packard), there's no other reliable
>way than a static table containing the common aliases for each
>manufacturer, which is not implemented in KDEPrint (yet?).
>
>Michael.
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