Printer drivers for Minolta 1300W should be included in Ubuntu (not only the PPD)

[Miguel Diago]

I have recently bought the Konica Minolta PagePro 1300W and tried to make it
work under Ubuntu. I went to the gnome-cups-manager and add the printer as
usually: New Printer->Where it is connected->Controller->End. However, the
"Print Test" button didn't do anything. Later I discovered that I had to install
its driver (as the one provided in gnome-cups-manager seems to be only a PPD)
from http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala/min12xxw/. Then the printer worked.

So, I suggest that (at least for this printer) both the driver and the PPD file
should be shipped together. A user that wouldn't know linuxprinting.org (where I
found what to do) would find serious difficulties to make the printer work.

http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala/min12xxw/: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala/min12xxw/

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hm, this driver does not seem to fit well into the existing printing
infrastructure, it needs CUPS integration work, which should primarily be an
upstream task.

I won't have time to work on this anytime soon, so I assign this back to the
default user for now.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Seems your problem was already adressed:

daniel@bert:~/build/test$ apt-cache search minolta 1300W
min12xxw - Printer driver for KonicaMinolta PagePro 1200W, 1300W
daniel@bert:~/build/test$

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

If the driver plugins into the existing printing infrastructure, it should be
part of the desktop install so that it works out of the box.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

This should work using latest dapper 0060415.
The min12xxw driver is installed by default now on a desktop installation.
Do you still experience this problem in dapper?

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

If this is still a problem, please feel free to reopen this bug report. Thanks in advance.