Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?
On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:16:21 -0500 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> shared
this with us all:
>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!
Maybe hpijs is what you need?
HTH
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