Dennis wrote:
> got it! The problem was, that Opensolaris doesn't ship with the correct 
> driver (Why???)

The OS will never be able to keep up with the latest new printers, so 
for those we have to hope someone will have produced a ppd that will 
work on solaris - so admins can download it.

> Here is what I have done:
> wget 
> http://openprinting.org/foomatic-db/db/source/PPD/HP/HP_Color_LaserJet_2605.ppd
> gzip HP_Color_LaserJet_2605.ppd
> chmod 444 HP_Color_LaserJet_2605.ppd.gz
> su
> cp HP_Color_LaserJet_2605.ppd.gz /usr/share/ppd/SUNWfoomatic/HP/
> svcadm restart svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default

you probably should have used 'ppdmgr' to add the ppd file.

> Then start print manager and configure...
> 
> Only one question is left: Although I have chosen the printer as the standard 
> printer I always have to access it with the printer name, lpq -PHP for 
> example.
> 
> Does anyone know how to make this the default printer, so it prints with "lpr 
> output.ps" ?

    # lpadmin -d <printername>


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