On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 04:51:19 PM Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Dec 29 17:25 C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote (excerpt):
After the repair of my trusty HP DeskJet 400 I was planning to install that printer again on my opensuse 11.4. Much to my chagrin, the install with cups or via yast did not find the driver for this printer.
See "Driver" at http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Printer --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you do not find a driver description which looks reasonable for your printer model or a driver description which you expect to be available, you may click the "Driver Packages" button to check whether or not you may have to install more printer driver software packages. See http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing therein the section "openSUSE printer driver software packages". ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I found some sites where the pdd file for this printer was offered. The result of the download showed a .bin file. Somewhere it was mentioned to rename the bin file into a ppd file which I did.
A PPD file is no driver. See "PPD files" versus "Printer drivers" at http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing or read the help text in YaST: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Note that a printer description file is not a driver. For non-PostScript printers the PPD file alone is not sufficient to set up a working printer configuration. In particular it does not work for non-PostScript printers to download a PPD file from the Internet and then set up the printer with such a PPD file. The plain printer setup would work but actual printing would not work because the driver is missing. For non-PostScript printers you need a printer driver and a PPD file which matches exactly to the particular driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Thanks Johannes, I had all the packages that are possible in Cups. The name I had put in the search matched what HP suggested. Finally I deleted all packages and reinstalled them. The search for my printer found 5 or 6 drivers and the printer is now finally installed. Not really a solution for install problems but I think somewhere a package was stuck. Thanks for the help and the insight i have now in PP files. -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 12.1 (i586) Kernel: 3.2.0-2-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 20:49pm up 0:31, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.26, 0.68 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org