* Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I also see cdj970 in the output of "gs -h." So, the driver is > available, but there isn't any ppd file for it, which CUPS seems to > need. > > Question 2: How can I configure CUPS to use this driver?
Drop the ppd into /etc/cups/ppd/your_printer_name.ppd > The cupsomatic-ppd package says that new installations should use the > foomatic packages, which I have done, but it appears that CUPS isn't > using it. Or do I first have to run some foomatic program manually to > generate a ppd file for the cdj970 for CUPS to use? Point your browser at linuxprinting.org and get it to generate a ppd for you. YMMV with those -- manufacturer's ppds work much better for me, so try to find that first. Google is your friend. Dima -- Riding roughshod over some little used trifle like the English language is not a big deal to an important technology innovator like Microsoft. They did just that by naming a major project dot-Net (".Net"). Before that, a period followed by a capital letter was used to mark a sentence boundary. --T. Gottfried, RISKS 21.91