CUPS printer choice

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 02:23 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Actually, I was looking on my CentOS machine,
> where I only have hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5.4.x86_64
> and hpijs-1.6.7-4.1.el5.4.x86_64.

Oh, that does *not* have the driver you are after.

> But now I've looked on my Fedora-12 laptop, where I have
> hpijs-3.10.2-2.fc12.i686 and hplip-3.10.2-2.fc12.i686,
> and I still don't see any mention of the HP J4500 series.

Select 'HP' as the manufacturer and 'Officejet j4500' as the model.

> Do I actually have to attach the printer to the laptop
> to get the PPD file?

No.

> Also, if I did manage to find, or create,
> an appropriate PPD file on my Fedora-12 laptop
> could I transfer it to my CentOS-5.4 desktop?

No, I'm afraid not.  It isn't a PostScript driver but a raster-type
driver.  It needs that version of HPLIP in order to run.

Tim.
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