HPLIP

  1. Bug #485218
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 485218

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

There are very many duplicate PPDs in HPLIP. See bug 493282.

Duplicate PPDs do not only waste space, but they also produce duplicate entries in the driver lists of printer setup tools. See the first two entries in the driver list in the screenshot attached to the SUSE/Novell bug report (https://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=328291). This irritates uses and makes them think that there are perhaps differences between the two entries.

The correct fix is deleting all duplicates and NOT replacing them by symlinks. CUPS determines the supported printer models and drivers only by make, model, and nickname fields in the PPD, not by the PPD's file name. So there will be no more supported printer models listed by CUPS if PPDs are provided under more different file names.

In addition, if there are two flavors of a certain printer, one coming with PostScript module and one without (and having the possibility to buy the PostScript module later), the version without should not have PostScript as driver in its driver list, so that the printer simply works out of the box.