Additional dry time option doesn't take any effect

[Alexander S.]

Hi.

There is not critical problem, but it prevents me to use built in my device the double side printing system. It takes too long time while ink dries, and when I set "Additional dry time" to 5 seconds it's still wait 15 seconds for each page. I would to request one additional option to set this param as 0, because when printing simple text, ink dries during printing proccess.

Best,
Alex

[Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14)]

Hello Alexender,

Thanks for reporting the issue. Hopefully solution provided at following location will solve your problem.

https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/155315

PLease let me know if issue is not solved.

Thanks,
Sanjay

[Alexander S. (aheaven87)]

Hi, thanks for response. Your advice looks like a solution but is a bit tricky, because in that way I will be forced to maintain this package by myself, instead of using the system one. Could you please add these few strings into the original build? It would be very convinient to have an option "0", which could have negative value in program, but looks as 0 for end users.

Also this is a bit strange to have something like this: "Total dry time = default dry time (15 seconds fixed) + additional dry time(currently 0)". As I am a developer myself, I would think that this is a bit unexpected, at least for the end user this is definitely true, as user doesn't know about any default dry time.

Perhaps default dry time (15 seconds) should be used when the "Additional dry time" option is not set by user, but if it's set, dry time should be equal to the "Additional dry time" option value and "default dry time" constant shouldn't be used here.

Sorry for my two cents, it's just my opinion on things.
Best,
Alex