Where to find foomatic-filters-ppds?

[Josef Wolf]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:04:06PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/29/2008 01:43 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:34:26AM -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:51 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> >> > Thanks for the answer, Francis.  Unfortunately, I don't get it:
> >> > neither foomatic-filters nor hplip contains any ppd files.
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/all/foomatic-filters-ppds/filelist
> 
> >> I believe they were all moved to 'openprinting.org-ppds' - which could
> >> potentially have caused the issues you're experiencing.
> > 
> > It is openprinting-ppds.  With HP_Laserjet_4.ppd from this package, I get
> > much better results.  But the field to select the paper type is grayed
> > out and "Letter" is selected by default.  Again, with suse's
> > HP_Laserjet_4.ppd, I can select "A4" paper size.
> 
> Did you have problems downloading the ppd from the package that I
> pointed you to?
> 
> Did you copy the suse ppd over and use that as suggested as an alternate?

No, I did

   apt-get install openprinting-ppds
   lpadmin -p LaserJet4m \
           -v socket://ps-7968be \
           -E \
           -o PageSize=A4 \
           -o Resolution=600dpi \
           -o PrintoutMode=High \
           -m /usr/share/ppd/openprinting/HP/HP_LaserJet_4.ppd.gz