On Monday 10 May 2010 14:16:21 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 suggest just installing all the packages listed from (aptitude search '- ppds$'). This should catch more printers than most users need. > 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)). For HP printers, I suggest using the hp-toolbox which can be found in the hplip-gui package. If the cups web interface is more comfortable for you, the printer drivers provided by hplip (HP LInux Printing) project are in the hpijs-ppds package. > 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. I'm not entirely clear here, either. I let aptitude pull in whatever gutenprint packages it wants, but I don't know that I am using them directly. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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