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Re: PPD printer installation/uninstallation

Joris Kempen wrote:
...
I tried starting/stopping the Printing Services but this has no
> effect on the printers you can choose in Print Center.

The Apple folks can probably speak to this better than I; those
commands reload the cupsd PPD "cache", not the cached data in any
application.

questions:
- How could I assure that in the install/uninstall process the
> Print Center is restarted.

Pop up an alert window telling the user to exit the Print Center?
Kill any Print Center processes?

- Can anyone clarify what needs to be done in the system to make
> sure that the following added items are recognized: Cups Filter,
> PPD, PDEs
- do I need to restart CUPS to let it "see" the added Cups filter?

If the filter is associated via a PPD file, no; adding a printer
using the PPD file will register it with CUPS.

- do I need to restart the Printing Services to make use of the
> added items?

To track the PPD files or any filters registered via a .types
and .convs file in /etc/cups, yes.

- do I need to restart the Print Center to make use of the added
> items?

Possibly.

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