Where to find foomatic-filters-ppds?

[Francis Earl]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:51 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:00:14PM -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> > The package you require are looking for is foomatic-filters, however,
> > given that it is an HP printer, I think hplip should work fine - it is
> > provided and maintained by HP themselves... 
> > 
> > Both of these are installed by default however, so I'm not sure what the
> > issue might be there...
> 
> Thanks for the answer, Francis.  Unfortunately, I don't get it:
> neither foomatic-filters nor hplip contains any ppd files.

I believe they were all moved to 'openprinting.org-ppds' - which could
potentially have caused the issues you're experiencing.

OpenPrinting.org is part of the Linux foundation, and they're trying to
make the situation much better, so I'd recommend filing bugs, and seeing
if it is an issue that Ubuntu has introduced by merging them...

> > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 22:47 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > With the default ppd files coming with ubuntu, I get a very bad
> > > quality on my HP LJ-4M.
> > > 
> > > OTOH, I get very good quality on my suse box with the
> > > LaserJet_4M-Postscript.ppd.  According to rpmsearch, this ppd
> > > is available for ubuntu in the
> > > foomatic-filters-ppds_20040506-1ubuntu1_all.deb package.  But
> > > 
> > >   apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds
> > > 
> > > says it can't find this package.
> > > 
> > > I have enabled universe, multiverse and restricted.
> > > 
> > > Any hints?
>