Steve Browne wrote:
>
> Thanks, but I solved it. I went to www.cups.org and used their online
You mean www.linuxprinting.org?
> driver builder to create Epson_Stylus_800-st800.ppd. I then downloaded
> it to /usr/share/cups/model/Epson where all the other Epson drivers
> are. DrakeConf still wouldn't see it in the printer setup utility, so
> I cp st800.ppd to LQ-850-lq850.ppd (overwriting the original) and then
> called it an LQ 850 in the DrakeConf setup. Works!
>
You do not need to overwrite an existing PPD, to make a newly added PPD
visible for printerdrake, simply restart the CUPS daemon:
service cups restart
because printerdrake looks up the driver list in the summary file
/etc/cups/ppds.dat which is generated on every start of the CUPS daemon.
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