[Foomatic] Re: Bug in PPD for HP Photosmart 7960
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Fri Jun 18 19:47:00 PDT 2004
I have fixed it now, now the PhotoSmart 7xxx series should work with
HPIJS 1.6.
The "CID:hpdeskjet_5550A851;"seems to be correct.
Thanks for the report.
Till
Khalid Akbar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently purchased an HP7960 printer and had problems getting it to work with
> linux debian.
>
> Eventually I found that the PPD provided in the database required some minor
> mods, namely the Model in the original PPD is defined as a deskjet 5550:
>
>
> 93c93 Photosmart7960.ppd
> < urer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="photosmart 7960"&&
> ---
>
>>urer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="deskjet 5550"&
>
>
>
> There is also a line in the PPD which references the Deskjet 5550 which I did
> not change:
>
> CID:hpdeskjet_5550A851;
>
> Changing this enabled printing through CUPS using ghostscript 8.14 with ijs
> enabled.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps someone.
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