Hello Nix Wizards
I got this engenious setup from Mr. Hoeg here on the forum: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/brother-dcp-572dw-wrapper/8113/3
It works so far for me. Only problem is, that model = "everywhere"; does setup my printer to only grayscale.
So I changed to model = "drv:///cupsfilters.drv/pwgrast.ppd";, this is also not perfect as the two sided printing does not work correctly. As drv:///cupsfilters.drv/pwgrast.ppd is some general driver.
When I manually change the driver to everywhere in the HP driver menu then everything works:
How can I find this driver and apply it correctly to model = "everywhere";?
Thank you in advance for your answer!
Here’s the whole shebang:
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
# check existing printers with lpstat -s and remove printers with lpadmin -x <printer-name>
{
hardware =
let
printer = "HP_Color_LaserJet_Pro_M454dw";
hostName = "192.168.178.3";
in
{
printers = {
ensureDefaultPrinter = printer;
ensurePrinters = [
{
name = printer;
deviceUri = "ipp://${hostName}";
model = "drv:///cupsfilters.drv/pwgrast.ppd"; # Location of the ppd driver file for the printer. lpinfo -m shows a list of supported models.
description = lib.replaceStrings [ "_" ] [ " " ] printer;
location = "Home";
}
];
};
};
}