Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 154253
Support lacking for HP6840 printer
Last modified: 2012-06-20 09:19:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Red Hat/1.7.6-1.4.1 Description of problem: The version of foomatic that is shipped with RHEL 4 lacks entries for the HP6840 printer. In adding the network HP printer, the deskjet 6840 printer is not listed. An easy fix is to update to foomatic-3.0.2-13 as found in fedora. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): foomatic-3.0.2-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Add printer utility 2. Give a description 3. Indicate that it is a network printer 4. Look through the vender specific drivers. Additional info: Update to foomatic-3.0.2-13 (fedora) provides the proper description: /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/HP-DeskJet_6840.xml
Internal RFE bug #154409 entered; will be considered for future releases.
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