Dell p513w with Fedora 16

[Dave Cross]

My new Dell laptop came with a free Dell p513w printer. I've been
trying to set it up for use with Fedora 16.

It's a wireless printer, so I've set it up, connected it to my network
and got it working using a Windows PC. My Fedora desktop can see it on
the next work, but it appears that foomatic doesn't have a PPD for
this model of printer, so I've been scouring the internet.

This README file
(http://downloads.dell.com/printer/R247660_Readme.txt) talks about a
file called dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.rpm.sh.tar.gz which
installs a bunch of PPDs for Dell printers in
/usr/dellinkjet/dell09/etc/. The list includes dlP513w.ppd, which is
the PPD for my printer. However, the only file that I can find is
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails?DriverId=R247660&FileId=2731129294&DriverName=Dell%20Photo%20P513W%20AIO%20Inkjet%20Printer%2C%20A00
which only includes the .deb version of the package, not the .rpm one.

I've asked Dell support for help, but I thought I'd ask here too. Has
anyone had this problem or (even better) solved it? Is it possible to
extract the PPD from the .deb version of the file?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Dave...

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