cups & ppd file question

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 09 December 2007, 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?

Yes.

>Or does 
>it reread the file on every printout anyway?

No.

>(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 :-).

Anytime you change a config option, restart cups.

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