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system-config-printer-kde package

  1. Bug #209220
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 209220

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Problem here is that HPLIP has moved PPD generation from Foomatic to the CUPS DDK. The KDE Printing Manager does not support the new PPD generator concept of CUPS 1.2 (PPD generators in /usr/lib/cups/driver/) as it does not ask CUPS for existing PPDs. It looks for physical PPD files and it looks directly into the Foomatic XML database. So it does not find the HPLIP PPDs which are generated by /usr/lib/cups/driver/drv.

Solutions are:

1. (Preferred) Make system-config-printer for KDE actually working and configure the desktop that system-config-printer is used by default.

2. Make the KDE Printing Manager dependent on the hpijs-ppds package, so that ready-made PPDs are there (AFAIR we went for this solution also with Gutenprint)

I have checked in the GNOME version of system-config-printer and there the DeskJet 5550 is listed.