[cups] FwdHelp for newbie adding a printer by pointing the wizard to a PPD file

[Zdenek Dohnal]

Hi Rocco,

what CUPS version do you use and on what OS? How old is your printer model?

If you have a newer printer, it can have driverless support, so you do
not need any PPD to add.

You just search for printer by 'sudo lpinfo -l -v', take founded printer
uri and create new permanent queue by lpadmin. See CUPS webpages for
more info.

If you printer is older/or does not have driverless support, the easiest
way is to use hp-setup - it can find proper ppd for your printer (if it
is supported in hplip) when cups service is running, you do not need to
add any ppd manually.

On 4/16/19 2:03 AM, Rocco De Grazia @ gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was able to successfully add an HP Envy 114 printer by pointing the
> wizard to a PPD file I downloaded from the HP site but when I send a print
> job to the printer, its status displays:
>
>
> Idle - "File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups" is a directory."oo
>
>
> Any idea what's going on here and how to overcome this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rocco.
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Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C