[MIR] ptouch-driver

[Till Kamppeter]

This is a free software printer driver package for Brother's P-Touch label printers.

Availability: Currently available in Universe, building on all currently supported architectures, see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ptouch-driver

Rationale: Having this driver in main, on the Desktop CD, gives real Plug'n'Print (plug in the printer and have it automatically set up in some seconds) for the supported label printers from Brother. Currently, Brother label printers are not supported by the default installation.

Security: No security vulnerabilities known at CVE and Secunia, no SUID components, no daemons.

Quality assurance: Installs without debconf questions (package has only a postinst script to update the PPDs of existing print queues), after installation package gets automatically used when connecting a Brother printer to USB and printing on it or after setting up a Brother network printer with system-config-printer. The package gets regularly updated for Ubuntu by Till Kamppeter, who works for Canonical.

UI standards: Printer driver, set up automatically via Plug'n'Print for USB printers and via system-config-printer for network printers. Configuration as with other printer drivers via system-config-printer, per-print-job control via application's printing dialogs, as with other drivers. No additional UI (for example for nozzle cleaning).

Dependencies: Only standard dependencies: Standard libraries, CUPS, xz-utils (the last for compressed PPD archive).

Maintenance: See "Quality assurance".

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

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