Source: foomatic-db Maintainer: Debian Printing Group Uploaders: Till Kamppeter , Thorsten Alteholz , Section: text Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), foomatic-db-engine, pyppd, Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/foomatic-db Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/foomatic-db.git Homepage: https://www.openprinting.org/ Package: foomatic-db Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, Recommends: cups, cups-client, cups-filters | foomatic-filters, foomatic-db-engine, ghostscript, printer-driver-all, Suggests: cups-filters, hplip, hplip-cups, openprinting-ppds, Description: OpenPrinting printer support - database Foomatic is a printing system designed to make it easier to set up common printers for use with Debian (and other operating systems). It provides the "glue" between a print spooler (like CUPS or lpr) and your actual printer, by telling your computer how to process files sent to the printer. . This package contains the printer database distributed by OpenPrinting for most common drivers. You will probably need the foomatic-db-engine package for this package to be useful. Package: foomatic-db-compressed-ppds Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, Recommends: cups, cups-client, cups-filters | foomatic-filters, ghostscript, Suggests: cups-filters, hplip, hplip-cups, openprinting-ppds, printer-driver-all, Breaks: foomatic-db, Conflicts: foomatic-db, foomatic-db-hpijs, Provides: foomatic-db, Replaces: foomatic-db, foomatic-db-hpijs, Description: OpenPrinting printer support - Compressed PPDs derived from the database Foomatic is a printing system designed to make it easier to set up common printers for use with Debian (and other operating systems). It provides the "glue" between a print spooler (like CUPS or lpr) and your actual printer, by telling your computer how to process files sent to the printer. . This package contains all PPD files which can be generated from the Foomatic database as one small compressed archive. This reduces the disk space consumption compared to the Foomatic XML database vastly and in addition makes listing of all available PPDs and extracting the needed PPD much faster than using the Foomatic XML database. Package: openprinting-ppds Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, Recommends: cups, cups-client, cups-filters | foomatic-filters, Suggests: hpijs-ppds, Description: OpenPrinting printer support - PostScript PPD files This package includes a collection of free PostScript Printer Description files for PostScript (and clone) printers from various manufacturers, as distributed by OpenPrinting. . If you have non-PostScript printers, the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds (or foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine), hplip and the printer-driver-* packages are the ones you need; this package won't be of much help to you. . Some manufacturers distribute PPD files for their printers under non-free licenses; those are not included in this package, but may be available from the manufacturer's website, included on a CD or other media with the printer, or downloadable from the OpenPrinting web site (even automatically if the printer setup tool supports it).