[cups.general] Xerox Phaser 7400DN

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Jan 31 10:04:54 PST 2013


On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:09:15 +0100 (CET)
Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> dijo:

>>>>> So just now I downloaded the PPD from Xerox. I selected the Linux
>>>>> option and downloaded the tar file. After untarring it I found and
>>>>> installed the following PPD:
>>>>> xrx7400dn.ppd	85.0 KB	Mon 02 Jan 2040
>...
>>> ... I tried a few more things, including creating
>>> a new Linux printer, but using the Windows PPD file instead of the
>>> one in the Linux downloads section on xerox.com.
>>> When I print to this printer I get perfect output ...
>...
>> Well, then I'd like to see the Linux PPD that lead to garbled
>> output. Perhaps I then could file a bug to your Linux distibutor
>> (pelase tell me who it is).
>
>As far as I understand it, the Linux PPD was downloaded
>from Xerox in the Linux downloads section on xerox.com.

That is correct.

The Windows PPD was also downloaded yesterday from xerox.com. The two
PPD files are not the same size or time stamp. I do not understand why
they are not the same. I always thought a PPD file was a PPD file,
written for the specific printer, and platform agnostic.





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