hpcups-based Fax PPDs broken

[Till Kamppeter]

I want o be able to use HPLIP with only the CUPS Raster driver hpcups and without additional hpijs. Unfortunately the hpcups-based fax PPDs (fax/ppd/HP-Fax-hpcups.ppd.gz, fax/ppd/HP-Fax2-hpcups.ppd.gz) do not pass cupstestppd and therefore get rejected by CUPS, especially not listed by "lpinfo -m" (or the equivalent IPP request used by printer setup tools). So fax queues can only be set up with hpijs currently.

The problem is that you give the model name in the "*Product:" keyword without parentheses:

*Product: "HP Fax"

Parentheses are required here and therefore the line must read:

*Product: "(HP Fax)"

Same for the Fax 2 PPD. Please apply this simple fix to 3.9.8. Thanks.

[dwelch91 (dwelch91)]

Till, this will be fixed in 3.9.8. Thanks for the report.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Till Kamppeter
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> I want o be able to use HPLIP with only the CUPS Raster driver hpcups
> and without additional hpijs. Unfortunately the hpcups-based fax PPDs
> (fax/ppd/HP-Fax-hpcups.ppd.gz, fax/ppd/HP-Fax2-hpcups.ppd.gz) do not
> pass cupstestppd and therefore get rejected by CUPS, especially not
> listed by "lpinfo -m" (or the equivalent IPP request used by printer
> setup tools). So fax queues can only be set up with hpijs currently.
>
> The problem is that you give the model name in the "*Product:" keyword
> without parentheses:
>
> *Product: "HP Fax"
>
> Parentheses are required here and therefore the line must read:
>
> *Product: "(HP Fax)"
>
> Same for the Fax 2 PPD. Please apply this simple fix to 3.9.8. Thanks.
>
> ** Affects: hplip
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> hpcups-based Fax PPDs broken
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407079
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of HP Linux
> Imaging and Printing, which is subscribed to HPLIP.
>

[volRot (info-rothert)]

The Bug is present

[zenarcher (zenarcher-opensuse)]

Not working in Karmic Release Candidate, either.

[Cyril Bouthors (cyril)]

Still broken in Karmic stable.

[Adhir K Saxena (adhir-hplip)]

The bug has been fixed since HPLIP 3.9.8 release. Please install the latest HPLIP 3.9.10 release from http://hplipopensource.com/ and verify the same.

Thanks,
~Adhir

[Cyril Bouthors (cyril)]

On 24 Nov 2009, <email address hidden> wrote:

> The bug has been fixed since HPLIP 3.9.8 release.

I'm running 3.9.8-1ubuntu2 and the issue is still there.

> Please install the latest HPLIP 3.9.10 release from
> http://hplipopensource.com/ and verify the same.

I'd prefer waiting for the Ubuntu package.
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[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

I have checked a Karmic with HPLIP 3.9.8-1ubuntu2 and the problem is fixed:

till@till:~/printing/website/trunk$ sudo apt-get install hplip-cups
[sudo] password for till:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  hplip-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hplip-cups
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 396kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,421kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe hplip-cups 3.9.8-1ubuntu2 [396kB]
Fetched 396kB in 1s (227kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package hplip-cups.
(Reading database ... 210703 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hplip-cups (from .../hplip-cups_3.9.8-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up hplip-cups (3.9.8-1ubuntu2) ...

till@till:~/printing/website/trunk$ cupstestppd /usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax-hpcups.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax-hpcups.ppd.gz: PASS
till@till:~/printing/website/trunk$ cupstestppd /usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax2-hpcups.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax2-hpcups.ppd.gz: PASS
till@till:~/printing/website/trunk$ cupstestppd /usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax-hpijs.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax-hpijs.ppd.gz: PASS
till@till:~/printing/website/trunk$ cupstestppd /usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax2-hpijs.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax2-hpijs.ppd.gz: PASS
till@till:~/printing/website/trunk$ lpinfo -m | grep 'HP Fax'
lsb/usr/hplip/HP/HP-Fax-hpcups.ppd.gz HP Fax hpcups
lsb/usr/hplip/HP/HP-Fax-hpijs.ppd.gz HP Fax hpijs
lsb/usr/hplip/HP/HP-Fax2-hpcups.ppd.gz HP Fax2 hpcups
lsb/usr/hplip/HP/HP-Fax2-hpijs.ppd.gz HP Fax2 hpijs
till@till:~/printing/website/trunk$

Please check whether there are existing print queues with old, broken PPD files. Please update the PPDs by recreating the print queues or switching them to the "hpcups" driver with system-config-printer ("Properties" dialog). Note that usually PPD files of existing print queues get automatically updated. If your PPDs in in /etc/cups/ppd/ still have the bug, please attach every PPD with the problem to this bug report.

[Cyril Bouthors (cyril)]

On 25 Nov 2009, <email address hidden> wrote:

> Please check whether there are existing print queues with old, broken
> PPD files. Please update the PPDs by recreating the print queues or
> switching them to the "hpcups" driver with system-config-printer
> ("Properties" dialog). Note that usually PPD files of existing print
> queues get automatically updated. If your PPDs in in /etc/cups/ppd/
> still have the bug, please attach every PPD with the problem to this bug
> report.

apt-get remove --purge cups*
and reinstall solved the issue

Thanks
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