I have a Xerox color laser printer which came with a disk for Windoze. I was able to locate the ppd file on that disk. It works just fine. Herb > -----Original Message----- > From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Waugh > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:53 AM > To: gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx; Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: CUPS printer choice > > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 02:23 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Actually, I was looking on my CentOS machine, where I only have > > hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5.4.x86_64 and hpijs-1.6.7-4.1.el5.4.x86_64. > > Oh, that does *not* have the driver you are after. > > > But now I've looked on my Fedora-12 laptop, where I have > > hpijs-3.10.2-2.fc12.i686 and hplip-3.10.2-2.fc12.i686, and I still > > don't see any mention of the HP J4500 series. > > Select 'HP' as the manufacturer and 'Officejet j4500' as the model. > > > Do I actually have to attach the printer to the laptop to get the PPD > > file? > > No. > > > Also, if I did manage to find, or create, an appropriate PPD file on > > my Fedora-12 laptop could I transfer it to my CentOS-5.4 desktop? > > No, I'm afraid not. It isn't a PostScript driver but a raster-type driver. It needs that > version of HPLIP in order to run. > > Tim. > */ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
