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Re: lpadmin: Unable to open PPD “/tmp/quad.ppd ” : Illegal option keyword string on line 195.

2016-03-10 by richard@...

I was getting something similar earlier today with my p800. The sting on line xxx was different but it was the same error line. 

I have this set up as a custom name printer, and that might have been the issue. None of the other printers I have here had the same problem, and none of them have a custom name. (Although I have been printing for a few months with the custom name printer with out problems).

The only thing that fixed it was deleting the printer in system prefs, recreating it as a bounjour printer (because it's Ethernet, otherwise just are running the install command would have done it if it was connected via USB). Then I changed the profiles folder and the install command back to the original name quadp800 and then reran the install command. That fixed it, but I miss my custom printer name. 

The weird thing was that using the drop quad program created the quad file, i just couldn't print with QTR in print tool (no QTR drop down in the print dialog).

In any case I got it working. But it beats the hell out of me what the issue is there. I will check to see if I have some over the character limit file names. I've had that issue in the past, but am usually prett careful to not create profile names that are too long.

Is this part of that silent OS X update that broke Ethernet? Maybe, but the printer is still attached by Ethernet and it has been printing for a few hours now...

Weirdness.

RB

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