printer auto-detection does the wrong thing for unknown printers
Bug #102389 reported by
James Troup
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cupsys (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
|
Till Kamppeter | ||
gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
system-config-printer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-cups-manager
The SNMP printer detection in feisty is excellent, unfortunately it can sometimes very much do the wrong thing. When presented with a Xerox 7228, it chose the WorkCentre 450cp with the cdj550 driver. Sending anything to the printer in this setup causes literally hundreds of pages of garbage to be printed.
While I understand we can't ship the PPDs for the 7228 and other Xerox printers in main (they don't grant permission for modification), at the very least we can not auto choose a model which causes the printer to run amok and cost the user paper, ink and money.
Related branches
Changed in system-config-printer: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in system-config-printer: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
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This is not a bug of the SNMP autodetection, the SNMP scanner of CUPS for sure reports back the correct model name of your printer. You see it on the first page of the gnome-cups-manager in the "Detected Printers" box. The problem is that if there is neither a PPD nor an entry in the OpenPrinting database for the printer, CUPS or the printer setup tool easily guesses a wrong model with similar name.