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ppd file for color laserjet mfp m278-281

Asked by Dror Cohen

Hi,
it seems hplip doesn't support my newly bought HP mfp printer. Is there a ppd file I can use to manually install the printer or maybe you can point me to the closest printer that will give me at least some of the functionality (must have: basic B/W printing. NTH: color printing, two sided printing, scanning. Not needed - tuner status, fax, send by email...)

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Shivani Mandora (shivani1709) said : 		#1

Hi Dror,

Since the printer color laserjet mfp m278-m281 is not supported by hplip, we can not use any other printer's PPD.Please wait for the support of this printer.Thanks.

Thanks,
Shivani Mandora

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Dror Cohen (drorcohen) said : 		#2

thanks for the fast reply. I'd be happy to help in the testing. Any timeline for the expected ppd?

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Fritz Elfert (felfert) said : 		#3

Actually, I have this printer fully working with (PostScript printing, scanning and as a
FAX printer) using the following ppd

hp-color_laserjet_mfp_m277.ppd

It is just a newer (successor) model with basically the same features.
The only difference are of course the different MDL and DES. That said, you
even can convince hp-setup to recognize the printer automatically by duplicating the
section named "hp_color_laserjet_mfp_m277n" in the file models.dat and renaming the
copy to "hp_colorlaserjet_mfp_m278-m281" (Note: No underscrore between color and laserjet)

Cheers
 -Fritz

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Fritz Elfert (felfert) said : 		#4

Typo in my previous comment: Original section name was hp_color_laserjet_mfp_m277dw, not hp_color_laserjet_mfp_m277n

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Dror Cohen (drorcohen) said : 		#5

My printer is defined on the system page (web UI) as "HP Color LaserJet MFP M281cdw". I used the method described in here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1724151 by @https://launchpad.net/~felfert to duplicate the 277 model into my 281 model. The problem remained the same until I defined the new model as non duplex (dropped the dw from the end of the line). Attaching my working file diff to the original one to the bug.