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