Bug 421819 - cups database woefully out of date
Summary: cups database woefully out of date
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 388149
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Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Printing (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: All openSUSE 11.0
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Johannes Meixner
QA Contact: Johannes Meixner
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Reported: 2008-09-01 03:23 UTC by Chris Cox
Modified: 2008-09-02 06:44 UTC (History)
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Description Chris Cox 2008-09-01 03:23:22 UTC 
Hate to make this a bug. I realized that not having printers (even printer as old as 2-5 years back) might be excusable in 10.3, I think it's time that the ppd database for cups was updated.  There are lots of reasonable ppd files at http://linuxprinting.org.  My printer, a HP CP3505dn (the successor of the 2800) isn't in the database (for example).

Just a nit.... I think we could of done better.
Comment 1 Johannes Meixner 2008-09-02 06:44:38 UTC 
On my openSUSE 11.0 I have two PPDs (drivers) available:
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root@host# lpinfo -l -m | grep 3505

Model:
name = manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/hp-color_laserjet_cp3505-hpijs.ppd.gz
make-and-model = HP Color LaserJet CP3505 Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.4.2
device-id = MFG:HP;MDL:color laserjet cp3505;DES:color laserjet cp3505;

Model:
name = manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/HP_Color_LaserJet_CP3505-ps.ppd.gz
make-and-model = HP Color LaserJet CP3505 Postscript (recommended)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Therefore it is very likely a duplicate of bug 388149.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388149 ***