Re: [tlug] Grateful

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Nick Bikkal writes:
>
>  > Right. I have CUPS on the machine. I downloaded a driver for an older
>  > version of Ubuntu I believe. I downloaded a file and don't know how to
>  > use it now. For now it's just sitting there.
>
> I can't promise the PPD itself will work, but one hack is to just copy
> it to CUPS's PPD directory.  I don't have an Ubuntu system, but on my
> Gentoo system it's /usr/share/cups/model/<vendor>/<printer>.ppd.
>
> If you list the files there, it shouldn't be hard to guess what to
> name it.


I haven't added a printer for a while (and I don't want to delete my
current printer just to try it out since I might give myself more
stress just before the weekend), but during printer installation with
CUPS, I think it asks you to provide a PPD file.  If Stephen's
suggestion doesn't work, you can also try this.  The end result is
perhaps the same -- I think CUPS just copies the PPD file to the above
directory.

Ray