Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?
On Mon, 10 May 2010 15:16:21 -0400 (EDT), Kent West wrote:
>
> Something I've never figured out with Debian is how to know which
> package to install to get a certain printer driver.
>
> I know I've printed to this HP Color Laserjet CM3530 from a Debian box
> before, but I have no idea what package I had installed to do so, nor
> what driver I chose (since I can't find the CM3530 listed in my
> web-based CUPS setup (localhost:631)).
>
> I'm unsure if I don't have the right package installed, or if I used a
> different driver in the past. Google and the Debian search engines are
> not helping me one whit.
>
> I've never really understood the relationship between printer drivers
> for general use and printer drivers for gutenprint (whatever that is),
> or the relationship between those and/or cup-driver-gutenprint and/or
> cupsys-driver-gutenprint (and the descriptions are less than helpful),
> so any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
What release of Debian are you using? Lenny? Squeeze? Sid?
I've experienced what you describe before, mainly because older releases
of Debian used the lpr/lpd printing setup, and I used apsfilter to
install printer drivers. Then when I switched to a newer release of
Debian that used CUPS, and foomatic did not have a driver for the printer,
especially for older or less popular printers.
http://www.linuxprinting.org and http://www.cups.org are good places
to start looking for documentation.
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