updating cups drivers?

[Tim Jackson]

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Nick Smith wrote:
> is there a way to update the drivers that cups has available?
> in our office we have an HP 3600n shared and setup via cups.  i can
> print a test page off the server (which is gentoo)
> i try to connect to that cups share via my laptop (ubuntu) and the
> 3600 isnt listed, and none of the other models around it work either.
> but then if i could update the available printer drivers in cups on my
> laptop, the printer is also setup on the network and i could just by
> pass the cups server all together.
> 
> any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick
> 

If you have the latest ppd file from the manufacturer just put it in
/usr/share/cups/model and then use the printer setup interface to
reselect the driver for the printer destination.

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