[Bug 209220] Re: HP DeskJet 5550 not supported in Hardy

[Till Kamppeter]

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.


** Changed in: system-config-printer-kde (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: hplip => system-config-printer-kde
   Importance: Undecided => High
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Jonathan Riddell (jr)
       Target: None => ubuntu-8.04

** Also affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Jonathan Riddell (jr)
       Target: None => ubuntu-8.04

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HP DeskJet 5550 not supported in Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209220
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