Yeah, about that… Back in ’12, we got a nice HP poster printer. They don’t support Linux, but a co-worker got the .ppd out of the Mac support file.

I tried it, then I looked at the file in vi… and found it *only*
supported the 24″ printer, *not* the 44″ printer that we had.

Well, we just bought a replacement, since the old printer was EOL’d. This time, I went to hplips, d/l and built the current one, and sure enough, there’s a .ppd for the DesignJet Z9.

Any bets on what I found? No? There was *NO* support for the 44″ printer. I saw *one* setting for something 30×42 (the 100′ roll of paper is 42″
wide).

I joined and tried asking about that on the hplips site. That was last week. Not a single response.

HP no longer does software support for their printers (I got that from the engineer – we do have contract support). Had a friend d/l and install the Mac ps driver… no .ppd.

Anyone know someone who’s involved with hplips? Otherwise, I’m going to have to spend half a day or a day hacking the damn .ppd.

Btw, the server it’s attached to is C6. One of these days I’ll upgrade it to C7, but the *only* think it’s used for now are these poster printers.

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