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.