Generic Postscript 'driver'. Generally, for Postscript printers, you will not need a driver, as all applications produce PostScript. For the printing system getting access to the printer-specific features the manufacturer supplies a PPD file for every PostScript printer. Use this PPD file instead of a Foomatic-generated one to get all functionality of your PostScript printer working. The files provided by Foomatic are generic files which contain only some standard options, use them only if you do not find an appropriate PPD for your printer. One can make use of all functionality which the PostScript printers have under Windows/MacOS when one uses the PPD file coming with the printer, downloaded from, from the manufacturer's home page, or from web site (do ' unzip -L filename.EXE' to get the PPD files). Samsung sgh x820 driver for mac.

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If there are several different PPD files for your printer model and none dedicated for Linux or Unix, the PPD for Windows NT works best in most cases. CUPS and PPR support PPD files directly, LPD/GNUlpr/LPRng, PDQ, CPS, and spooler-less users can set up their printers with foomatic-rip as they would set up a printer with a Foomatic PPD file. Foomatic-rip works as well with manufacturer-supplied PostScript PPD files. This way all PostScript printers work perfectly under GNU/Linux or other free operating systems. Ghostscript is not needed for them. See also our for instructions. See the tutorial chapter ' for detailed information about PostScript and PPD files.