Print dialog doesn't display the status message for printers correct

[Christian Krützfeldt]

The normal print dialog doesn't show the correct status for printers instead it displays some random characters.

Firefox and Thunderbird show the correct status which in my case would be:

Printer 'Dell-5350dn-DKinvoice' has no toner left.
Printer 'Dell-5350dn-white' has no toner left.

The characters I see in the print dialogs for eog or gedit for example change with every mouse move. It doesn't matter which window has the focus, the characters constantly change when moving the mouse.

My setup is I have one pysical DELL 5350dn printer with 4 paper trays and to access them quickly I've installed 4 printers with the defaults sets to the individual trays.
However out of those 4 only two show those messages, the other two don't show any status at all. Also in Friefox the other two don't say that it is out of toner.

I've attached a screenshot of the dialog.

Not sure if this is related to this bug or if it is seperate bug. For the printers with this status the Firefox/ Thunderbird print dialog doesn't display any printer icon. It should be the printer with the yellow/orange triangle with the "!" in it.

[Christian Krützfeldt (o63ist0an)]

Attachted is another screenshot with different characters

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[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Marked GTK as affected, as the dialog on the screenshots is part of the GTK library.

[Christian Krützfeldt (o63ist0an)]

After upgrading to 16.10 I can not reproduce this problem anymore.

So feel free to close this bug.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Closed per reporter’s comment above; not a bug anymore.