Description of the Printer Driver Field in Solaris Print Manager

The Printer Driver field in Solaris Print Manager is displayed when you select the Add New Printer (attached or network) or Modify Printer Attributes (attached or network) menu options. This field contains printer driver descriptions from the PPD cache file, based on the printer model that you select. To distinguish between duplicate printer driver descriptions that have different labels within the PPD file repositories, the label and abbreviation of the PPD file repository name is also displayed.

The format that is used for the printer driver description is as follows:

label(repository-letter): driver-description

For example, the following PPD file is located in the PHOTOS label within the user PPD file repository:

/var/lp/ppd/PHOTOS/HP/HP-PhotoSmart_P1100-hpijs.ppd.gz

This PPD file would appear in Solaris Print Manager's Printer Driver field selection list as follows:

PHOTOS(U): Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)

In the following example, the following PPD file is located in the SUNWfoomatic label within the system PPD file repository:

This PPD file would appear in Solaris Print Manager's Printer Driver field selection list as follows:

SUNWfoomatic(S): Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)

The following table describes the PPD file repository letters, the repositories they represent and the location of the repositories a the system.