HP printers in SOLARIS 10 under cups 1.1.20

[Helge Blischke]

Rainer Blaes wrote:

>> 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
>>
> 
> 
> THX, Helge. Had a wrong .ppd File downloaded from any location. In the
> meantime I learnt to use openprinting.org and everything is fine now!!!
> 
> By the way since you are using also Solaris systems: Tried to compile
> foomatic- filters 4.0.3 for Solaris 10 5/09 but got a compilation error:
> ..
> ghostscript/iapi.h no such file or directory
> 
> But Ghostscript 8.70 is installed via package manager. Does this mean that
> one has to compile the source code to have this iapi.h file?
> 
> Greetings, Rainer

Well, I worked (among others) with a Sparc Solaris 10 system until end of 
April only, but the iapi.h is part of the Ghostscript source distribution as 
well as of the Ghostscript library (develpoer) package.

If you don't succeed in finding this header file, let me know, I have it 
from gs 8.64 (and that shouldn't have changed sine then).

Helge