HP LaserJet 4 with PostScript Level 2 installed

[Helge Blischke]

al wrote:

>> al wrote:
>>
>> > I have an old HP LaserJet 4 that has the PostScript Level 2 installed.
>> > I recently installed Ubuntu Jaunty
>> > Setting up the printer using CUPS I selected my usual LaserJet 4 with
>> > postscript. On printing the CUPS test page it lists the Interpreter
>> > Information as:
>> >
>> > PostScript: Level 3
>> > Version: 3010 (864)
>> > Product: GPL Ghostscript
>> > Serial #: 42
>> >
>> > On an older system running KDE I have, on printing the CUPS test page:
>> >
>> > Interpreter Information:
>> >
>> > PostScript: Level 2
>> > Version: 2011.110 (1)
>> > Product: LaserJet 4
>> > Serial #: 0
>> >
>> > The Jaunty PS level 3 does not seem to work properly and I would like
>> > to use the older interpreter that specifies PS level 2.
>> >
>> > I am unclear on how to do this.
>> >
>> > I did try specifying a PPD but when I print a test page - out pops the
>> > PS level 3.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Al
>>
>> You probably picked up a PPD specifying foomatic-rip as the final filter
>> for the printer. Try to get the PS PPD from www.openprinting.org.
>>
>> Helge
>>
> Dear Helge
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I did find the PPD file that I was looking for.
> 
> I tried making a new printer in the cups interface and specified the exact
> location of the PPD file
> (/usr/share/ppd/openprinting/HP/HP-LaserJet_4.ppd)
> 
> Cups seems to reject the attempt to specify my own selection of the ppd
> file
> 
> Cups seems to ignore my specification and subs in its own.
> 
> I wonder what I need to do to force cups to use my selection.
> 
> Thanks for any info you could provide

What CUPS version are you using? If I remember correctly, CUPS 1.1.x 
insisted on installing the PPDs from /usr/share/cups/model. I don't know 
what 1.2.x does, but 1.3.x and higher offer the choice to specify a PPD from 
an arbitrary location (the butten is named "browse", I think).

Helge