HP printers in SOLARIS 10 under cups 1.1.20

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Mon Oct 19 04:23:17 PDT 2009


Rainer Blaes wrote:

> Dear all,
> since I still trying with more or less success to compile cups 1.4.1 for
> Solaris 10 I installed in the meantime from the Solaris 9 companion DVD
> cups 1.1.20 for our printers from XEROX and HP.
> By copying some XEROX .ppd files to /opt/sfw/cups/share/cups/model we are
> able to setup the XEROX printers via the GUI where we find the relevant
> drivers under the Model XEROX menu.
> Now we want to do the same procedure with our HP printers:
> Although we put some HP .ppd files to ../share/cups/model Dir they didn't
> appear in the GUI's Model HP submenu.
> Instead of that we see only the "foomatic/hpijs" models stored under
> /opt/sfw/cups/share/cups/model/hpijs/HP. Why? and 2nd question: Is there
> any way to force the GUI to accept also the HP .ppd files under
> ../share/cups/model Dir. THX, Rainer

I had no problems with HP printers under CUPS 1.1.19 and Solaris 9/10.
Please post (an URL to) a PPD which will not be detected by your CUPS 
1.1.20.

Helge





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