BJ330 driver missing important paper size

[DAP]

Binary package hint: cups

I'm afraid I'm blaiming cups for this because I can't figure out what package the Canon BJ330 driver comes from.

The BJ330 is a wide carrage printer capable of printing 14" wide on 14 7/8" form feed paper. But there is no option for this paper in the driver, and none of the options available will work with this paper. It is obvious that the driver writer knew that this is a wide format printer since 11x17 is supported. This does not help, because it is not the same aespect ratio as the form feed paper, and 11x17 paper must be loaded portrate mode since 17" is wider than the 15" platten. 11x14 7/8" form feed paper can only be loaded in landscape mode.

Yes I need to buy a new printer. I dragged this printer out of my scrap pile when my i9900 failed just in time for taxes. Some of the forms I'm trying to copy have such fine print they are illegible if printed on an 8.5x11 page on the BJ330.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: cups 1.4.4-6ubuntu2.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 4f08ac62e89ad166a1e0b05f95495253
CheckboxSystem: fd6c484c0b5d20a2f1cd036ef0f63975
CupsErrorLog: E [27/Feb/2011:20:56:59 -0800] Returning IPP client-error-not-possible for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost/printers/Canon-BJ-330) from localhost
Date: Mon Feb 28 00:11:41 2011
Lpstat:
 device for Fax: socket://localhost:9900
 device for i9900: usb://Canon/i9900
 device for tp0: tpu://Canon/i9900
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 tp0: Canon_i9900 TurboPrint
 i9900: Generic text-only printer
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=b5a554b5-92df-4492-abbf-290fd809d2c0 ro xforcevesa quiet splash crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cups
dmi.bios.date: 09/02/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1701
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P6T DELUXE
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1701:bd09/02/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP6TDELUXE:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Most Foomatic-generated PPD files are really missing a custom page size setting. I have added this now for most drivers, including "bj200" in the upstream BZR repository of foomatic-db. I will update the Ubuntu package after the Alpha 3 release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package foomatic-db - 20110317-0ubuntu1

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foomatic-db (20110317-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     - Added custom page size to the most-used PageSize option entries, so
       that most Foomatic-generated PPD files get the possibility to select
       a custom page size. We do this as we do not know the complete sets of
       possible page sizes for most printers and probably many actually allow
       custom page sizes by hardware (LP: #726397).
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:47:03 +0100