Description:

Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers,
printer drivers, and driver descriptions. It contains utilities to
generate PPD (Postscript Printer Description) files and printer queues
for CUPS, LPD, GNUlpr, LPRng, PPR, and PDQ using the database. There
is also the possibility to read the PJL options out of PJL-capable
laser printers and take them into account at the driver description
file generation.

There are spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate
queues (foomatic-configure) and to print files/manipulate jobs
(foomatic printjob).

The site http://www.linuxprinting.org/ is based on this database.

This package contains the tools for accessing the Foomatic database,
for printer administration, and for printing.