[oe] CUPS ppd drivers

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Steven Descheemaeker
<stevend at limotec.be> wrote:
>
> Marc Reilly schreef op di 19-05-2015 om 10:42 [+1000]:
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>>
>> I got printing going a couple of years ago for HP printers, (the only type we
>> needed to support). I haven't been keeping track since, so I'm not sure what
>> the current state of recipes in yocto is.
>>
>> We only need to be able to print pdfs. It's not fast, but it works.
>>
>> On Monday, May 18, 2015 04:39:41 PM Steven Descheemaeker wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to add printer support to my embedded board. I'm able to
>> > build cups but there aren't any driver packages.
>> >
>> > Are there any recent packages for printer drivers? I already tried to
>> > build gutenprint/foomatic myself but I'm relatively new to yocto so I'm
>> > not that good in writing recipes my own.
>> >
>> > Anyone can help me out with this ?
>>
>>
>> What type of printer are you using?
>>
>> For HP printers, use the hplip drivers. There is a detect/add printer script
>> which is handy for adding USB printers.
>> For other brands, I'm not sure. I think there were some recipes for canon and
>> epson printers.
>>
>> Below is a list of the packages in the image related to printing, the python
>> packages are for the hplip add scripts, and the perl is (i think) for the
>> foomatic filters.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> IMAGE_PRINTING_INSTALL = " \
>>       ghostscript \
>>       ghostscript-cups \
>>       cups \
>>       cups-doc \
>>       cups-lib \
>>       cups-libimage \
>>       foomatic-filters \
>>       poppler \
>>       poppler-data \
>>       hplip \
>>       hplip-ppd \
>>       hplip-cups \
>>       hplip-backend \
>>       hplip-filter \
>>       python-syslog \
>>       python-pprint \
>>       python-compression \
>>       python-shell \
>>       python-xml \
>>       python-unixadmin \
>>       python-html \
>>       python-resource \
>>       python-terminal \
>>       python-lang \
>>       python-stringold \
>>       python-netclient \
>>       python-fcntl \
>>       "
>>
>> PRINTPERL = " \
>>       perl-module-strict \
>>       perl-module-posix \
>>       perl-module-fcntl  \
>>       perl-module-exporter-heavy \
>>       perl-module-cwd \
>>       perl-module-sigtrap \
>>       perl-module-io-handle \
>>       perl-module-data-dumper \
>>       perl-module-bytes \
>>       "
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hello Marc,
>
> For HP I already found hplip indeed, but I need more than only HP as
> printer brand. I'm searching for recipes like gutenprint/foomatic with a
> large amount of printer drivers for different brands.
>

does this help

http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-extended/foomatic/foomatic-filters_4.0.17.bb