hp laserjet 4250 and CUPS options

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 16:03:43 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Linda Hanigan
<haniganwork at earthlik.net> wrote:

> Would it
> make sense to try installing the printer to a windows xp machine with
> the postscript driver so I can copy the ppd file and use it with CUPS?
> Could I get away with replacing the existing ppd file and restarting
> cups or would I need to install the new driver?

I don't know if it will solve your issue, but most PPD files from a
Windows install will work fine in CUPS.
Just put it in /usr/local/share/ppd, and do sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys reload

Brian




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