Where are the hpijs ppd's?

[roadrunner]

Just installed Mageia 1 32-bit - very smooth and very quick - congrats to all those involved

However, for duplex printing to work correctly with my HP Officejet Pro 8000, I need the hpijs ppd but I can't find it. According to the filelist for the hplip-hpijs-ppds package, it's supposed to be in /usr/share/ppd/HP but the .gz archive for my printer in /usr/share/ppd/HP contains the hpcups ppd, which is no good.

Until I can find the hpijs ppd, I've done a workaround by "stealing" the hpijs ppd from another distro

So, where are the hpijs ppd's please.

.\\artin

[isadora]

Welcome to the Mageia-forum!!!

Probably you are in need for: hplip-hpijs-ppds
Just install through Mageia Control Centre -> Software Management -> Install/Remove Software.
Check that you search in ALL packages and not just in "Packages with GUI".

[roadrunner]

Thanks for the welcome and for your response but I already have the hplip-hpijs-ppds package installed.

.\\artin

[isadora]

Checked quickly into my own machine, and found:

hp-officejet_pro_8000_a809.ppd.gz contains the PPD file for HP Officejet Pro 8000 a809 with CUPS.

[roadrunner]

Yes but what does the *FileVersion: line say.

Here's the first six lines from the original Mageia hpcups ppd:

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*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*% PPD file for HP Officejet Pro 8000 a809 with CUPS.
*% Created by the CUPS PPD Compiler v1.2.3.
*% (c) 2008 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "hpcups 3.11.3a"


Here's the first six lines from the hpijs ppd which I "stole" from another distro:

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*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%%%% PPD file for HP Officejet Pro 8000 a809 hpijs with CUPS.
*%%%% Created by the CUPS PPD Compiler CUPS v1.4.6.
*% (c) 2004-2008 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "hpijs 3.11.3a"


Duplex printing works correctly with the second one but it doesn't work correctly with the first one.

.\\artin

[isadora]

And what is the difference with this one? (hp-officejet_pro_8000_enterprise_a811a-ps.ppd)
Or just some completely different kind of printer?

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*%%%% Created by the CUPS PPD Compiler CUPS v1.5svn.
*% (c) Copyright 2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "17.4"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName: "HPP00006.PPD"
*Product: "(HP Officejet Pro 8000 A811a)"
*Product: "(Officejet Pro 8000 A811a)"
*Product: "(HP Officejet Pro 8000 Enterprise A811a)"
*Product: "(Officejet Pro 8000 Enterprise A811a)"
*Manufacturer: "HP"

[roadrunner]

Different printer:

Officejet Pro 8000

Officejet Pro 8000 Enterprise

.\\artin

[roadrunner]

Bug report filed: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732

.\\artin