RE: [SLE] Needed Substitute Printer Driver
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I've also had problems locating printer drivers for various printers, but have also stumbled upon a way to make several printers work (and work well). I look in the Spool directory under drivers and locate the PPD file that's there for the printer in question. I then have imported the PPD file into the PPD database on SuSE (9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and SLES 9) and have used the loaded PPD in CUPS printer setup. Examples of where I used that are the 7000-series Phaser Xerox printers. I've done that for both the 7700 and 7750 printers. I'd suggest either checking your driver installation in Windows to see if a PPD file was installed, or checking on the printer vendor's web site for the file. Dave -----Original Message----- From: David Johanson [mailto:dcjohan@patriot.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:42 PM To: SuSE Support Group Subject: [SLE] Needed Substitute Printer Driver My Panasonic KX-CL500 (color laser)is a wonderful printer with built-in networking capability which, since it ships with the appropriate windows drivers, works great on the windows side. I need to locate a driver for the Linux side that will allow it to fully function, i.e., provide color and duplex printing in addition to the standard B&W it now does. It's a PCL5c emulation printer but the problem is that I can't find a correct printer to use for it. HP lists the 4610n, 2600n, and the 3700,3550,3500,2550 & 9500 series printers as ones that might be emulated. However, I don't find anything available that looks like these. Has anyone had any experience with this Panasonic printer or any ideas as to which available driver might provide the full capabilities available? tia, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Christensen, David