one more time: integrating another printer driver into FC5

Frank-Michael Fischer hotmifi at compuserve.de
Tue Apr 18 10:51:33 UTC 2006


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
>
>> Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
>>> After successfully installing FC5 I realized my Canon iP4100 printer is
>>> not supported under Fedora. Canon, however, provides Linux drivers as
>>> RPMs. These install nicely. After installing the driver, I can add a
>>> printer using CUPS but not when using the printer admin tool coming
>>> with
>>> FC5, because the new driver is still not listed; CUPS however lists
>>> ONLY
>>> the new driver. Something is strange here, any idea how I could fix
>>> this?
>>>
>>> FMF
>>>
>>>
>> One more try: Anybody an idea how to install another printer driver so
>> that system-config-printer knows about it and not just CUPS?
>>
>> I'll appreciate any help,
>
> Open system-config-printer and click Actions, then Import PPD.
>
>>
Thanks a lot for the help. BTW the place to look for the PPD after
installing the Canon RPMs is:

/usr/share/cups/model

FMF




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