Re: repost - printing - help please

[Avtar Marwaha <avtar@vestrivan.net>]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:

You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and all of
> the necessary dependencies.

Sorry, I made some mistakes.

There are two ways of doing this.  

You will still need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, and pnm2ppa
packages whichever method you choose

One way is to use the package cupsomatic-ppd.  Everything will work
pretty much automagically.  But this package is not updated and the
drivers or ppds you get are old.

The other way is to use foomatic, which is the new version of
cupsomatic, but it requires more work to get it working.

Instructions are:

Download foomatic-db and foomatic-bin and their deps.

Then as root run 

foomatic-compiledb -t ppd pnm2ppa

this will generate the necessary file in /etc/foomatic/ppd/

Then make a link in /usr/share/cups/model/ to the file
/etc/foomatic/ppd/HP-DeskJet_710C-pnm2ppa.ppd the command is

ln -s /etc/foomatic/ppd/HP-DeskJet_710C-pnm2ppa.ppd
/usr/share/cups/model/HP-DeskJet_710C-pnm2ppa.ppd

Restart cups: /etc/init.d/cupsys restart 

Then you will be able to use the web interface for cups to get the
printer configured.

Regards

Avtar

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