Print System

New printer system has been introduced in MorphOS 3.10 and extended in MorphOS 3.12. It is based on CUPS logic although it doesn;t contain any CUPS code in its core. Drivers are represented using PPD (PostScript Printer Description) [1], which supports both Postscript and non-Postscript printers. Previously Postscript printers could be used in MorphOS directly sending raw Postscript stream to the printer. It doesn't allow to set any settings and only Pagestream has decent settings for that.

New preferences has been created to handle drivers and profiles. Driver is a binary form of PPD textual file. Profile is a driver which includes settings set by the user.

To have printer connected one has to provide PPD driver. Some of printers including EPSON ESC/PR and Samsung CLPs can be automatically found and driver will be added using Search driver button. If not please use Add... button to select PPD file. PPD files for Postscript printers will be added and they are ready to work. PPD files for other printes contain reference to filter file (driver which translate data to printer binary format). If PPD file with filter not available in MorphOS is provided user will be asked what to do.