# Dymo 400 Label Writer in Ubuntu (Jaunty/Karmic)


Apparently the cups driver (`ppd`) for Ubuntu (in both Karmic and
Jaunty) is not installed by default, see
[this](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=861781&page=1) and
[this](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/322210) for
more information.

The strange thing is that if you look at
[openprinting.org](http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Dymo-LabelWriter_400), 
it says

> Dymo LabelWriter 400
> 
> Supplied with CUPS
>    Works perfectly.

Supplied with cups??? Works perfectly?? How, where, when??

Well:

    % apt-get source cups
    % ls -l cups-1.3.9/ppd/dymo.ppd
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 miekg miekg 24K Nov 27  2007 cups-1.3.9/ppd/dymo.ppd

And that's your `ppd` file. For good measure I've put this up
[for download here too](/downloads/2009/dymo.ppd).

I'm using this myself and it indeed works correct. When configuring
your printer in `cups` you need to click *use custom ppd file* or
something like that.