Manufacturer-supplied PPD files
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This directory contains PPD files created by printer manufacturers
(usually for PostScript printers) which they have put under DFSG-free
licenses.  See also http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

As we only publish free software on linuxprinting.org, we also publish
only free PPD files. We encourage every printer manufacturer to put
their PPD files under free licenses to ...

 - get them added to this collections and so to have as many PPDs as possible
   at the central place of printing with Unix and alike operating systems.

 - get them into all Linux distributions, and there already onto the
   downloadable part of the distribution and not only onto the commercial
   software CDs, which are only available when one buys the boxed set of
   the distribution.

See also:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/VIII.Foomatic-Contribution/


How to use the PPD files
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If not otherwise stated in documentation in the PPD file directory
from where you got your PPD, proceed as described in the Foomatic
instructions for your printing system:

CUPS:               http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html
LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr: http://www.linuxprinting.org/lpd-doc.html
PPR:                http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppr-doc.html
PDQ:                http://www.linuxprinting.org/pdq-doc.html
No spooler:         http://www.linuxprinting.org/direct-doc.html

Additional instructions about using PPD files are available at

http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-doc.html