installing HP printer, setup

[Mickey]

FC13

I have installed the HPLIP drivers for a Deskjet F4580 printer, but cups 
can't complete setup because of a file called foomatic-rip-hplip ,which 
doesn't  exist in fedora , but foomatic-rip does exist in fedora.

This foomatic-rip-hplip is called from the the .ppd file, instead of the 
foomatic-rip file.

I have to edit the .ppd file for this printer and change the 
foomatic-rip-hplip to foomatic-rip, WHERE is THIS .PPD file located in 
FC13 ?

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:18:59PM -0400, Jim wrote:
> FC13
>
> I have installed the HPLIP drivers for a Deskjet F4580 printer, but cups 
> can't complete setup because of a file called foomatic-rip-hplip ,which 
> doesn't  exist in fedora , but foomatic-rip does exist in fedora.
>
> This foomatic-rip-hplip is called from the the .ppd file, instead of the 
> foomatic-rip file.
>
> I have to edit the .ppd file for this printer and change the 
> foomatic-rip-hplip to foomatic-rip, WHERE is THIS .PPD file located in 
> FC13 ?

I dunno anything about those programs you mention, but (in case you
haven't yet) you may find it helpful to use yum to install all the
foomatic packages you can find. and maybe look at the names of available
cups packges to see if any of them look interesting. and try a 
"yum list available | grep -y hplip" and similar to see if there's
anything else interesting to try.

[JD]

On 09/28/2010 12:18 PM, Jim wrote:
> FC13
>
> I have installed the HPLIP drivers for a Deskjet F4580 printer, but cups
> can't complete setup because of a file called foomatic-rip-hplip ,which
> doesn't  exist in fedora , but foomatic-rip does exist in fedora.
>
> This foomatic-rip-hplip is called from the the .ppd file, instead of the
> foomatic-rip file.
>
> I have to edit the .ppd file for this printer and change the
> foomatic-rip-hplip to foomatic-rip, WHERE is THIS .PPD file located in
> FC13 ?

From
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=575089 :
5. Added foomatic-rip-hplip support. Foomatic-rip-hplip is for distros 
that do not have the latest foomatic-rip which is required for drv support.

[Mickey]

On 09/28/2010 04:47 PM, JD wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 12:18 PM, Jim wrote:
> > FC13
> >
> > I have installed the HPLIP drivers for a Deskjet F4580 printer, but cups
> > can't complete setup because of a file called foomatic-rip-hplip ,which
> > doesn't  exist in fedora , but foomatic-rip does exist in fedora.
> >
> > This foomatic-rip-hplip is called from the the .ppd file, instead of the
> > foomatic-rip file.
> >
> > I have to edit the .ppd file for this printer and change the
> > foomatic-rip-hplip to foomatic-rip, WHERE is THIS .PPD file located in
> > FC13 ?
>
> From
> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=575089 :
> 5. Added foomatic-rip-hplip support. Foomatic-rip-hplip is for distros
> that do not have the latest foomatic-rip which is required for drv support.

I have foomatic-rip on this box and I believed that it is called from 
the ppd file, is /etc/cups/ppd where it is called from ?

[JD]

On 09/28/2010 02:36 PM, Jim wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 04:47 PM, JD wrote:
> > On 09/28/2010 12:18 PM, Jim wrote:
> > >  FC13
> > >
> > > I have installed the HPLIP drivers for a Deskjet F4580 printer, but cups
> > > can't complete setup because of a file called foomatic-rip-hplip ,which
> > > doesn't  exist in fedora , but foomatic-rip does exist in fedora.
> > >
> > > This foomatic-rip-hplip is called from the the .ppd file, instead of the
> > > foomatic-rip file.
> > >
> > > I have to edit the .ppd file for this printer and change the
> > > foomatic-rip-hplip to foomatic-rip, WHERE is THIS .PPD file located in
> > > FC13 ?
> >
> > From
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=575089 :
> > 5. Added foomatic-rip-hplip support. Foomatic-rip-hplip is for distros
> > that do not have the latest foomatic-rip which is required for drv support.
>
> I have foomatic-rip on this box and I believed that it is called from
> the ppd file, is /etc/cups/ppd where it is called from ?

For every installed printer, the printer ppd driver will indeed be
located in  /etc/cups/ppd/  directory.

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 15:18 -0400, Jim wrote:
> I have installed the HPLIP drivers for a Deskjet F4580 printer

It sounds like you've downloaded HPLIP and installed it yourself without
using the Fedora packages for it.

When a software package is already available within Fedora it's best to
use that one.  That way you know it has been tested and adapted as
necessary.

Tim.
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