regal mesa installfest: installing printer

[Robert N. Eaton]

In certain cases (my Minolta-Konica Magicolor 2300 DL for example) you 
must make sure you have the proper PPD file in place, possibly in 
/etc/cups/ppd. When you install the printer one of the cups screens will 
ask "Have driver?" with a radio button. Click on the button and give the 
path to the .ppd file.

I was tearing my hair out in clumps before I recognized that the cups 
list of .ppd files didn't include one for my printer.

Bob Eaton

bmike101 at cox.net wrote:
> A gentleman there was wondering about installing his printer.
> 
> The advise I gave him was:
> 1- google: ppd <desired printer> 
> 2- place the file in /usr/share/cups/model
> 3- run kaddprinterwizard
> 
> I forgot to tell him that you need to run that program as root.
> 
> I hope your listening buddy!
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