From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Description of problem: Red hat products (e.g. Fedora core 1/2/3) only bundles foomatic-db, but that doesn't includes hundreds of free printer driver PPD files provided by manufactures. Manufacture supplied PPD files can be found at www.linuxprinting.org/download/PPD, Ricoh, Gestetner, Savin, Lanier, Infotec and NRG provides their PPD files in MIT license and can be freely redistributed. Many manufacture supplied free PPD files has already been bundled with Suse and Mandrake linux. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Add new printer 2.Select Manufacture 3.Many manufacture supplied free printer drivers are missing from the model list. Actual Results: Only listed foomatic-generated printer drivers. Expected Results: All free drivers from linuxprinting.org/download/PPD should also be available to users. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140897 ***