[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=&quot;HEWLETT-PACKARD&quot; -sDeviceModel=&quot;photosmart 7960&quot&&
> ---
> 
>>urer=&quot;HEWLETT-PACKARD&quot; -sDeviceModel=&quot;deskjet 5550&quot&
> 
> 
> 
> 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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