new printer with new PPD file

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Fri Sep 1 08:58:02 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 14:35 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
> I just installed an HP Officejet 6310 on my network and noticed that FC6
> does not support this. I have downloaded the ppd file for this printer
> and am not sure where it goes.

If you want to add it to the CUPS collection of PPDs for that machine,
you can put it anywhere under /usr/share/cups/model.

> Also I noticed the new config-printer tool has a Provide PPD file
> option, is this the better way?

This is a great way to do it -- but note, it will only use the PPD for
that queue, and will not add it to the CUPS /usr/share/cups/model
directory. (Actually, maybe it should?)

Tim.
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