How to install printer driver without printer connected.

[Joe Feely]

Thanks Tim Waugh,
   This worked first try, great!

Joe


>  On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:53 +0000, Joe Feely wrote:
>>  I use a Dell 1720 laser printer 13 miles away (when I visit there), with
>>  no IN connection.

>  Here's a user-contributed openprinting.org entry for that device (I
>  think):
>  http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Dell-1720dn
>
>  It looks like you have two main options: PCL and PostScript.  CUPS in
>  Fedora 12 already comes with drivers for both of these languages so it
>  shouldn't be too hard to set up.  It won't be automatic though, as far
>  as I can tell.  This is because that device is not specifically listed
>  as being supported by any of the main printer drivers.

>>  How can I "install the required driver" while at home, from which I have
>>  access to the IN (and the CD I installed from, though I've no handy
>>  means of using this where the printer is).

>  First, make sure you have installed the updates.

>  Next, take a look at this entry in the common bugs list:

>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#foomatic-not-installed

>  As foomatic does contain some additional PCL and PostScript drivers, it
>  might be worth installing it.  Better to have it available to try than
>  not, especially with no Internet connection on site.

>  Also worth installing: gutenprint-cups, which has some PCL drivers of
>  its own.

>  Once you have all those installed there's not a lot more you can
>  usefully do until you have the device connected.  Once you have though
>  it should prompt you to select a driver for it, presuming it's a USB
>  device.  Otherwise:

>  System->Administration->Printing

>  Click New

>  The printer should already be shown and selected; if not, select the
>  connection type (e.g. LPT #1 or whatever).  Click Next.

>  Select Generic for the manufacturer. (PCL and PostScript are standard
>  languages supported by many different manufacturers, and as I said
>  earlier there is no driver with specific support for this model.)  Click
>  Forward.

>  Select PCL Laser Printer (this is the CUPS PCL driver), for example.
>  Click Forward, and follow the rest of the on-screen instructions.

>  It will ask you whether to print a test page -- do this.  If it doesn't
>  work, double-click on the printer icon in the printer configuration
>  window and click the 'Change...' button next to 'Make and Model:', and
>  try another driver.

>  Tim.




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