[cups] HP ppd files

[Michael Sweet]

Timothy,

> On Oct 15, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to find the ppd driver for an HP OfficeJet J4280.
> 
> According to <http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html>
> hplip-3.15.9 covers this printer.
> 
> I've downloaded the package hplip-3.15.9-2.fc23.x86_64
> on my Fedora-23beta/KDE laptop,
> but as far as I can see this does not include any ppd or ppd.gz files.
> 
> Have I misunderstood HP's documentation?
> Is there perhaps another package required after hplip?

Not sure how HPLIP is being packaged these days, but they may be shipping a .drv file instead of individual PPD files - "lpinfo -m" will list the installed printer drivers, including any that come bundled in a .drv file or are served by a driver interface program (like Gutenprint uses).

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair