
Note that the KMSECTIONKEY2 variable MAY CHANGE depending on your specific KM printer.Ĥ. It must have execute permission: chmod +x minolta This file allows injection of PJL commands. Create a filter file called “minolta” in /usr/lib/cups/filter/:Įcho -en SET KMUSERNAME = \"$\015\012"Įcho -en ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT\015\012" Note that the process of installing the printer will/should create a copy of this ppd file in the appropriate place in your flavor of Linux.ģ. *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 minolta" *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops" *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raw 0 minolta"

With an editor, add the following lines to the PPD to make it call a filter that we will write in a moment.


Place the ppd in /usr/share/ppd/custom/ (Ubuntu), or /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters (Red Hat). The PPD should start out looking similar to this:Ģ. At the time of this writing, KM’s EU site provided the best drivers (). Caveat: due to the general level of variability across Konica Minolta copier models and Linux OS’s, this doc should be considered a guide rather than a hard and fast instruction set.ġ. Download the PPD driver file from Konica Minolta.
