HP Laserjet 1018 ppd

Hi all,

I'm looking for the ppd file for HP Laeserjet 1018. It's the postscript definition that comes with the driver installation CD for this printer. Whether the CD is for Mac or Windows it should have this file inside. HP site no longer provides this file separately.

In Debian it would be in the /etc folder, or might also be in /usr/share/cups.

For example,

/etc/cups/ppd/

-rw-r----- 1 root lp 28255 Mar 12  2011 hp1200_7.ppd
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 24738 Aug 24  2019 HPLaserJet1200.ppd
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 24357 Apr 12  2019 HPLaserJet1200.ppd.O
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 20940 Oct 17  2012 PDF.ppd

The file name should be: HPLaserJet1018.ppd. To install a postscript printer using CUPS, the ppd is the only file that is needed.

Thanks in advance if you can post it here!

-bodhi
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/31/2020 08:48PM by bodhi.

Bodhi, I am not sure if this (scroll down to see which file to download) is what you are looking for. OTOH, a Google search result reveals a lot of hits on this.

Thanks habibie.

But I was hoping someone has the HP printers installation on their box might have this file already (it usually installs a buch of HP printers). I don't want to install another driver just to get this one file! Perhaps I can find this in one of those links to some zip file somewhere and extract it.

Again, if someone has this ppd file, please post.

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bodhi Wrote:
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> Thanks habibie.
>
You're welcome, Bodhi.

> I don't want to install another driver just to get this one file!
>
If I could, I would do the same thing, especially on any Windows OS.

> Perhaps I can find this in one of those links to some zip file somewhere
> and extract it.
>
That will be great. IIRC (and I could be wrong), a Windows program installation (.msi) file is basically a 7z compressed file.

Found it on my Rpi printer server at
/usr/share/cups/model/HP_Laserjet-1018.ppd.gz

I don't know if this is what you need.


In my experience with HP 1022, foo2zjs driver for HP 1022 works better than HP's driver. If I scan a picture then pipe print to the HP 1022 printer, HP's driver sometimes won't work, but foo2zjs always works.

And this is the PPD file from foo2zjs folder

looks like the same file. :P same md5 when unzipped



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2020 09:22AM by daviddyer.

Thanks David,

Excellent, exactly what I need.

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