Where does a printer filter go?

[Thomas Kaiser]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> I was too lazy to dig up the cd's that came with the printers and
> reinstall them, so I looked in my /etc/cups directory from my old
> debian unstable system and copied the files that looked like they
> described my printers.  
> 
> The networked Brother seems to be working fine, but the Samsung
> attached to the parallel port is complaining:
> 
>   Filter "ppmtospl2" for printer "lp1" not available: No such file or
> directory
> 
> The only ppmtosp12 I can find on my old drive is in the
> /etc/cups/filter directory, which I did copy.  (And subsequently
> restarted cupsys.)
> 
> So where is Ubuntu Dapper looking for it and not finding it?
> 

This post might help: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-July/043789.html

or search the archive for Samsung Printer

Regards, Thomas


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