Requirements for Generic Postscript printing

[Matt Broughton]

In article <39885-cups.general at news.easysw.com>,
 Logan Anteau <logan.anteau at eng.utoledo.edu> wrote:

> > There are zip or tar.gz archives containing the PPDs of individual printer
> > models for various HP  printer series on one of the HP web sites.
> >
> > The reason I prefer the vendor's PPDs is that these reflect special
> > properties of the individual printers in addition to the "generic" ones.
> > There is no need to compile anything else.
> >
> > Helge
> >
> 
> The only HP PPDs I turned up after searching around were the ones included in 
> the hplip tarball. There is a ppd directory in there. The only problem is all 
> of these either require the hpcups or hpijs filter which I do not have. So it 
> appears I need hpijs to use these? I know the entire hplip package will not 
> work on Solaris, I know you can compile hpijs on its own though. Just not 
> looking forward to it. Any other suggestions? Thanks I appreciate it

In the hplip tarball look under /prnt/ps.  No need for hpijs, hpcups, or 
foomatic.  Just PS PPD files.

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Matt Broughton
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