Re: [hpoj-devel] Diffs between PPD for PSC1300 and PSC1310

[Cory M. <cor...@hp...>]

On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 14:30 +0100, Kees Bakker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may be a non-issue, but still I want to mention it.

> Looking at the diffs between PSC 1300 and PSC 1310 I see that the 1310
> has a reference to PSC 1200 series.
> 
> ...
> 32c32
> < *Product:     "(psc 1300 series)"
> ---
> > *Product:     "(psc 1200 series)"
> ...
> 57c57
> <   MDL:psc 1300 series;
> ---
> >   MDL:psc 1200 series;
> 
	These are both host based printers based off the same platform, so not
really an issue.

> Furthermore I noticed that the linuxprinting page about PSC1310 suggests
> that hpijs 1.3 or higher is enough to get it going. That is not correct.
> On SUSE9.1 the hpijs is 1.4.1 (part of ghostscript-library package), and
> that one does not have support for deskjet 3600 (as required by the
> 1310 ppd).
> 
> FWIW. I've created a modified ghostscript-library RPM which includes
> hpijs 1.7.1, and also a hplip 0.8.4 rpm without /usr/bin/hpijs. The latter
> was needed because of a rpm conflict between these two.
> 
	We are working with SuSE to create distro supported RPMs.

> It made me realize that the SUSE packaging (at least until 9.1) comes
> with a pretty complex maintenance as far as the hpijs is concerned. With
> the introduction of hplip there are now at least three packages involved.
> * cups-drivers (includes the PPDs from linuxprinting.org)
> * ghostscript-library (includes the hpijs binary and the readme.html)
> * hplip (source includes the latest version of hpijs, and PPDs)
> 
> How can this be maintained properly? I wish SUSE a lot of wisdom :-)
> 
> Kind regards, Kees Bakker
> 
> PS. What is considered the actual SOURCE of the PPDs from HP? Is the
> hplip tar file taking the lead these days? Or is it linuxprinting.org
> somewhere?
> 
	The unstable branch of the foomatic-database has all of the current
files. I also back port to the stable branch as new releases become
available. However, the website and CVS are not in sync. So, in order to
get the *latest* PPD, you will have to download the CVS version of
foomatic and generate them yourself.

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