The CUPS Driver Development Kit (DDK) provides a suite of standard drivers, a PPD file compiler, and other utilities that can be used to develop printer drivers for CUPS and other printing environments. CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(r)-based operating systems. The CUPS DDK provides the means for mass-producing PPD files and drivers/filters for CUPS-based printer drivers. . This package should be installed for creating PPD files and for developing printer drivers.
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The CUPS DDK drivers provide support for all HP PCL/RTL and Epson ESC/P2 devices. . This package is needed to use the PPD files for non-PostScript printers available on www.cups.org.