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Which kind of printer driver architecture should I use?
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Which kind of printer driver architecture should I use?



Hello,
 
I'm a new Mac OS X 10.3 printer driver developer.
My customer has a USB printer which supports PCL5(HP-GL/2) and they want to have a function settings UI which includes paper size, resolution, dithering, stamp, rotary, vector graph etc. others. So, I have several questions:
 
1.I want to develop a CUPS printer driver and hope the printer can be recognized through adding printer in Printer Setup Utility. Besides, above function settings must be embedded into Printer Dialog and Page Setup Dialog. Is CUPS driver an appropriate choice? Or Tioga(PM, IOM)?
 
2.For question 1. If CUPS driver can be used, which tool is good for development? CUPS DDK or Gimp-print? Or others?
 
3.PDE is equal to PPD Plugin? If not, what's different?
 
4.The PDE example, OutputBins.plugin, is adapt to PostScript printer. Under developing CUPS driver, is it possible to use PDE? How to start?
 
 
If my concept is wrong, please correct me.
Thanks!



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