[cups.general] Where to get PPD files?

[Frank Fricke]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I have a Laserjet 4M Plus and I need a PPD file for it. I have googled
> and searched everywhere, but I cannot find the PPD file for this
> printer. I did find a file at adobe.com, but it is a self-extracting
> compressed file that (presumably) contains PPD files for every
> PostScript printer ever sold by HP. Plus, the file size is only 43K,
> which seems too small. Nevertheless, I'd download it if I had a way to
> open a self-extracting zip file on Linux.
>
> I looked all over cups.com, linuxprinting.org, hp.com, and
> openprinting.org and all I can find is references to PPD files, how
> cool they are, why I need them, but I can't find the actual FILES. I've
> spent hours looking. Can someone tell me where the PPD files are hiding?
>
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>   
   http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi  (choose "HP" and "LasterJet
4L")
-> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_4L
(choose "download ppd")
->
http://openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi?driver=ljet4&printer=HP-LaserJet_4L&show=0

The last URL is the downloadable PPD file and the previous URLs are the
way to get there :)
btw: One can extract windows self-extracting zip files just like normal
ones with the 'unzip' command.

   ...Frank