PPD files not found

[Helge Blischke]

Occam wrote:
> 
> First - 'standard' printing works ok.
> But - I cannot use any special capabilities of the printer, since the PPD files (properly placed and named, by CUPS, in /etc/cups/ppd/) cannot be found!
> lpoptions -l tells me "Destination Kyocera has no PPD file!"
> CUPS at localhost:631 works ok - except for "Configure printer" which gives an Error: server-internal-error
> 
> I am running CUPS 1.1.20 supported by ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1, under Slackware 10 using kernel 2.6.7, normally with KDE 3.2.3 as desktop.


The PPD files must be installed in (usually) /usr/share/cups/model to be 
recognized by the web interface or the lpadmin command.

Helge

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