Ted Miller wrote:> I can't get my HP DeskJet 712C to print via cups. I believe the reason
> is that according to
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-May/msg00002.html
> the pnm2ppa filter got dropped between RHEL 4 and RHEL 5, or between
> Fedora 6 and RHEL 5, depending on how you look at it.
>
> Foomatic still generates the pnm2ppa.xml file, but there is no pnm2ppa
> binary filter installed, so any print attempt ends with an error message.
>
> I don't find that any repo I have installed has picked this up for
> x86_64 architecture. Do I need to add a repo? Has this not been an
> issue for enough people that someone has made it available from a repo?
>
> Right now this has been a show-stopper on upgrading from Centos 4 to 5,
> as it is hard to use the workstation without a printer. Any help
> appreciated.
Since no repo seems to be interested in adding this printer driver, I
installed the one included with Fedora 6 (rpm doesn't care what repo it
came from, if you can get the URL right), and so far it is working. At
least I can start using my Centos 5 workstation.
It would be nice if someone would add this to some repo somewhere, so it
could be installed by yum. Unfortunately, it only supports a half dozen
printers, so I guess it is hard to get anyone motivated.
Ted Miller