On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:30:45 -0800, you wrote:
After spending a couple of hours trying to make my new printer play with lpd, I've plunged into the world of cups. The first question seems to be: how to add support for this printer. I've copied the applicable PPD file from the Kyocera CD, KM1020EE.PPD, to /etc/cups/ppd which as I understand things, should do the job. But when I run lpinfo -m, I see lots of other Kyocera printers (the ones that were known to SuSE's cups rpm), but not my 1020D.
There's a directory in the cups installation, /usr/share/cups/model/, which has vendor-specific gzipped ppd files with names like F-1010-laserjet.ppd.gz and FS-1200-Postscript.ppd.gz. These seem to be the ones displayed by lpinfo. I suppose I could make up a funny name for that PPD file I copied from the CD and gzip it and put it in that /usr/share/cups/model/Kyocera directory, but that seems like I'm wandering down some blind alley, since the docs seemed to point to the /etc/cups/ppd directory I used.
So I thought I'd ask here. The cups docs seem to assume either the printer is known to the installation, or you're going to write filters from scratch. Neither is my situation.
Any quickstart hints from you CUPS experts?
TIA,
Jim
The relationship between PPD filenames and the printers that they're for is foggy at best. My best advice is to try using the CUPS web interface and menu system, rather than try to work it manually. It's on port 631. Mike- -- If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs... You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead! -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,