Oops. I should have checked this before sending my reply, but I thought I'd send this along right away, since this may be supremely relevant here.
At <http://linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/VII.cups-help/VII.cups-help.html> it says: How to tell your printer's PPD For every installed printer (apart from "raw" printers), there is a copy of the companion PPD in the /etc/cups/ppd/ directory, named like your printer with a .ppd extension. (Hint: you don't need to put this file manually there; it's done by the lpadmin command or the web installation interface). Example: a printer named "MySuperDuperInkjet" will have a /etc/cups/ppd/MySuperDuperInkjet.ppd. A nice trick: You can look at a PPD in use for a particular printer through your browser (if your CUPS daemon is running) by pointing it to http://localhost:631/printers/MySuperDuperInkjet.ppd. Amongst the first 25 lines of this file you should recognize lines like the following: . . . . Most important is the line starting "*NickName...". It should always be there and tell you which sort of PPD is in use. Supply this information, if it is related to your problem! (If you are not able to access the file through you browser, the command "head -n 25 /etc/cups/ppd/MySuperDuperInkjet.ppd" will also get you there.) . . . . . . __________________________________________________________________ Well, needless to say, following the discovery of this little passage I indeed, looked into the etc. directory of my system. There is no CUPS subdirectory there. I tried the instructions there for finding it on the machine: output: "linux-p9wc:/home/[my name] # head -n 25 /etc/cups/ppd/hpclj2605.ppd head: cannot open `/etc/cups/ppd/hpclj2605.ppd' for reading: No such file or directory" and on the Web at "<http://www.etc.com/cups/ppd/hpclj2605dn.ppd>. output: "message: NOT FOUND The requested URL /cups/ppd/hpclj2605dn.ppd was not found on this server. Apache/1.3.26 Server at www.etc.com Port 80" Perhaps my cups daemon isn't running????? Rex Bachmann On 9/1/06, Johannes Meixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Aug 31 13:23 Rex Bachmann wrote (shortened): > > I just bought an HP color laserjet 2605dn printer > ... > > I use SuSE Linux 10.1 on X86. > > As far as I know this is a PostScript printer. > Therefore you don't need any special driver but only the > plain PPD file for this printer, see our online manual: > /usr/share/doc/manual/suselinux-manual_en/manual/sec.drucken.prob.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 11.7.2. No Suitable PPD File Available for a PostScript Printer > > If the manufacturer-PPDs package does not contain any suitable PPD file > for a PostScript printer, it should be possible to use the PPD file > from the driver CD of the printer manufacturer or download a suitable > PPD file from the Web page of the printer manufacturer. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > or see our support database: > http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell > > For example you can download the PPD from > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2605 > (go to "custom PPD"). > > Then either use "lpadmin" to set up the queue directly > or use YaST and choose something like "add PPD to database" in YaST. > > > HPLIP 1.6.7 packages built for Suse Linux 10.1 > for 32-bit Intel compatible (i586) and for 64-bit AMD (x86_64) > are available for testing (and only for testing) at > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jsmeix/unsupported/hplip/10.1/ > > There are incompatibilities with our official HPLIP > packages in Suse Linux 10.1. > Be prepared that your existing configuration may no longer work > with the new packages and/or that there may be no YaST support > for the new packages, see for example > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=184798 > > Note the "unsupported" and read the README: > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jsmeix/unsupported/hplip/10.1/RPMS/README > > > Kind Regards > Johannes Meixner > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
