[cups] HP ppd files

[Timothy Murphy]

Michael Sweet wrote:

> Timothy,
>> 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.

> 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).

Thanks very much, that solved the problem for me.
I'd forgotten about .drv files.
When I ran "lpinfo --make-and-model "HP OfficeJet" -m"
I found (among other entries)
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drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_4500_g510a-f.ppd HP Officejet 4500 g510a-
f, hpcups 3.15.9
drv:///hp/hpijs.drv/hp-officejet_4500_g510g-m-hpijs.ppd HP Officejet 4500 
g510g-m hpijs, 3.15.9
drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_4500_g510g-m.ppd HP Officejet 4500 g510g-
m, hpcups 3.15.9
drv:///hp/hpijs.drv/hp-officejet_4500_g510n-z-hpijs.ppd HP Officejet 4500 
g510n-z hpijs, 3.15.9
drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_4500_g510n-z.ppd HP Officejet 4500 g510n-
z, hpcups 3.15.9
drv:///hp/hpijs.drv/hp-officejet_4500_k710-hpijs.ppd HP Officejet 4500 k710 
hpijs, 3.15.9
drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_4500_k710.ppd HP Officejet 4500 k710, 
hpcups 3.15.9
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Also I found that I didn't need to find a .ppd file, as I thought.
When I connected the printer by a USB cable to my Fedora-23beta laptop
(after I had dnf-installed hplip) 
the printer was recognized, and I didn't need to "Add Printer" in CUPS;
acroread knew the printer and printed my boarding pass perfectly.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin