cups & ppd file question

[John Summerfield]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just curious: If you modify your printer's .ppd file
> (over in /etc/cups/ppd/), do you need to restart the
> cups service for the changes to take effect? Or does
> it reread the file on every printout anyway? (Or
> something in between?)
> 
> I just installed a new printer recently and went through
> a zillion iterations of the alignmargins script (from
> the open printing web site) to get the margins tweaked
> and I was wondering if I did more work than I had
> to (I was always restarting cups based on general
> paranoia :-).
> 

man lpadmin
Pay attention to "-P."


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