location for new printer driver?

Forum: Printers
Topic: location for new printer driver?
started by: wetterau

Posted by wetterau on July 20 2004,22:39

Hi, found a driver for an HP Deskjet 820 on www.linuxprinting.org , great site, and downloaded it. Where does it go so that apsfilter can find it? Presently getting message: not able to find pnm2ppa. Also, how does this info get saved locally so that the cofiguration does not have to be done after each boot? Thanks very much. DSL is great.

Posted by wetterau on July 22 2004,06:46

Found it in /etc/ppa. Thanks.

Posted by roberts on July 24 2004,23:56

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Also, how does this info get saved locally so that the cofiguration does not have to be done after each boot?

For liveCD users to add the following to the filetool.lst

1. /opt/apsfilter
2. /opt/printcap
3. /var/spool/lpd

If a special driver is needed then as was posted above then add that too.

Posted by wetterau on July 26 2004,00:55

Thanks very much. This is a great distro. If I get a chance, I'd like to contribute some documentation.