[cups.general] Colors and accounting with HP LJ 4600

[Guenther Frick]

Martin Drab wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
> 
>>Martin Drab wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a problem, here, with the HP LJ 4600dn using
>>>CUPS 1.1.20 + SAMBA 3.0.2. When I use the PPD from the Wihdows HP drivers
>>>that identifies itself as "HP Color LaserJet 4600 PS v3010.107", the
>>>printing works, but the print accounting (i.e. logging into the
>>>/var/log/cups/page_log) does not! I thought I solved the problem by using
>>>the Foomatic hpijs driver. Accounting works there, but I've discovered
>>>another serious problem. The color tones are not correct, in fact they are
>>>_way_ off. So now it seems both PPD drivers are unusable.
>>>
>>>Can anybody help me on that one? I think the easiest way would be to fix
>>>the "HP Color LaserJet 4600 PS v3010.107" PPD to produce something (??)
>>>that would make it do the accounting. However, I don't know what should it
>>>be. Another way would be to fix the colors within the hpijs PPD, also no
>>>clue. :(

You must differ between the printer name that you assign to a printer
during setup and the model name in the PPD file.
I'm think only the printer name is used.