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Thread ID: 44624 2004-04-25 01:01:00 HP LaserJet 1300 Printer Installation on Knoppix 3.3 Growly (6) Press F1
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231873 2004-04-25 01:01:00 Hi, I'm relatively new to linux, and wanted to set up my HP LaserJet 1300n on linux so i could, well, print.

I went to configure printers, and chose the LPR/LPRng Print System, and went to add a printer. The printer is attached directly to the network (Jetdirect card), and has an IP address of 192.168.0.3. I gave this address to knoppix and it went to install drivers, but when I chose the driver from the list, then chose foomatic+postscript it came up with this error:

Unable to load the requested driver:
Unable to create the Foomatic driver [HP-LaserJet_1300,Postscript]. Either that driver does not exist, or you don't have the required permissions to perform that operation.

I checked the HP site and they dont provide drivers for Linux, so I searched google and found a .ppd file for my series printer, but I dont know which file format it should be in to load it as a driver (with the.ppd extension the printer manager thing complains about it being the wrong format.

I'm confused now. What do I do? Extremely new to linux!
Growly (6)
231874 2004-04-25 01:01:00 Oh, and I'm logged in under root. Growly (6)
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