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).

This package is the Foomatic database, an XML database containing
information about the capabilities of near 1000 printers and around
250 drivers. Especially it contains the information how and with which
options the drivers have to be executed.