{"id":247,"date":"2011-09-22T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2011-09-22T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:20:26","slug":"missing-ppd-files-in-mac-os-x-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Missing PPD files in Mac OS X Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found that when installing Lion from a formatted drive, the ppd files for HP printers aren&#8217;t present.  You can get them from the previous OS install disc (snow leopard), in the following location (it&#8217;s hidden, so use CMD-K in the finder to browse to it):<\/p>\n<p>\/Volumes\/Mac OS X Install DVD\/System\/Installation\/Packages\/<\/p>\n<p>In there you should find a set of all the printer drivers for various printers that could have been installed previously.  I recommend using grep to determine which package has the driver you are looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found that when installing Lion from a formatted drive, the ppd files for HP printers aren&#8217;t present. You can get them from the previous OS install disc (snow leopard), in the following location (it&#8217;s hidden, so use CMD-K in the finder to browse to it): \/Volumes\/Mac OS X Install DVD\/System\/Installation\/Packages\/ In there you should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,99,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}