OpenPrinting / OpenPrinting/foomatic-db

foo2hp link doesn't work

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Since Feb 11, 2025.

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Description

Referring to this driver page:

https://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-Color_LaserJet_CP1215
"The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:
https://www.openprinting.org/driver/foo2hp

(which links to...)

https://snapcraft.io/ghostscript-printer-app
http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/

"PPD files (and the Foomatic XML files to generate them) come with the driver, therefore we do not supply PPDs here on the OpenPrinting site. "

The latter link to the project website is currently down/(or no longer maintained?), and I believe PPDs should be provided in preference to a Snap.

"PPD files come with the driver, therefore we do not supply the driver" would be more logical imo. Also this isn't a Snap in general but one provided specifically via the (Closed/Non-Free) Canonical Snap Store, whose terms and conditions I can't review in detail and across jurisdictions with solicitors and don't accept. Open printing shouldn't drop Open ppd files that have been available for this printer nearly 20 years, forcing the Closed SnapStore to be used. This probably wasn't a problem when the project was live, if they had the PPDs on their site, but of course they aren't live and why would they be?

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