Version: Under Fedora KDE Menu, Settings, Printers (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: Fedora RPMs OS: Linux Hi I have a Deskjet 740 Printer. I used the KDE Printer wizard and I sucessfully install the printer. There is no response when I send a print job. So, I decide to use Fedora's system-config-printer to install the printer. After I finish installing the printer using that, It tells me that I don't have the driver (pnm2ppa) installed. I use the Add/Remove Programs and install it, and now the printer jobs work. I suggest that you add something that tells users whether or not they have the driver, like Fedora's system-config-printer. If they don't, then tell them to install the printer driver. Thanks! This is a suggestion.
Thanks for your suggestion. You are right that the kdeprint suite has to check better if all required bits and pieces are in place. Please observe that this is a difficult task. There are literally thousands of printers out there. Yours isn't quite new either. Perhaps went unsupported by its own creator already. KDE relies on the distributions to install all the required bits for the system's proper functioning. Installing your printer drivers using distribution's tools is the right way to do it. There is probably more work to be done on the side of the distribution, to make sure installing printers from kdeprint is done following the particular mechanisms of that distribution. The KDE team can't survey all the mechanisms distributions employ for installing drivers (not for printers nor for anything else). Kdeprint just assumes all bits are in place and installs the printer description (PPD) file that allows for printing postscript with the help of the underlying printing system (CUPS, lpd etc.) which is assumed properly installed by the distribution. Thanks again.
Thanks, Cristian To other pnm2ppa printers: Download the driver through the Add Remove Programs Utility.