[Glastonbury] My CUPS floweth not ...

[Martin Wheeler]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, tim hall wrote:

> I don't have USB currently enabled. (interrupt conflicts with soundcard) is it
> generally regarded as being 'better' than parallel port for printers?

Not 'better'.  It 'just works' for me -- and that's good enough reason as 
far as I'm concerned :)

> The error_log give this:
> PPD file for lexmark-z53 cannot be loaded!
> Missing PPD-Adobe-4.x header on line 0.

OK -- so look at /usr/share/cups/model/<printer>.ppd

Thr first line //must// be something like:

      *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"

If it ain't, it sounds like a corrupt ppd file.
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