Ubuntu
gnome-cups-manager package

  1. Bug #29050
  2. Comment #101

Comment 101 for bug 29050

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Don Knudson (donknudson) wrote :

I have just upgraded to Debian "etch" Linux, and after three days of searching for how to get my HP Deskjet 722C to print again, I have finally found success. Here's what I did (except for what didn't work ; - ) . . .

I downloaded HP-DeskJet_722C-pnm2ppa.ppd from

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=pnm2ppa

then copied it to

/etc/cups/ppd

Visited http://localhost:631 and chose "add printer"

Rather than choosing a listed printer, I browsed to

/etc/cups/ppd/HP-DeskJet_722C-pnm2ppa.ppd

I printed a test page and Voila! It worked! : - )

Description: HP Deskjet 722C
Location:
Make and Model: HP DeskJet 722C Foomatic/pnm2ppa (recommended)
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0

Apparently, the problem was just that the driver for this particular "Windows" style of printer was not already included with my cups installation.