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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote : [gutsy] [regression] Configuring network printers has become impossible even for experienced users

I am using gutsy. When I installed tribe 5, I could configure a network printer (a ricoh aficio 2051 pcl) and gutsy would automatically chose a driver for me, I just had to chose protocol and hostname. This seemed to be a huge improvement with respects to feisty, however the default driver choice was plain wrong. I couldn't print double sided and quality was bad.

I don't remember which driver I chose at the time, but with a little trial and error I succeded in printing. Now, with current gutsy, I chose the network printer, and no driver or printer is automatically chosen. I am left with a list of printers. In feisty, it was the same, however, under "ricoh" I could find each printer ricoh ever made, including mine, and it was easy to set up the printer manually.

In gutsy, my printer is not listed, I have aficio 220, aficio 700 and another couple of printers. I am an experienced user, however I have to randomly chose one, and the choice does not work, I've tried many setups but print quality is awful, even if I set higher quality in the driver options.

Please notice: In feisty, I have the "hpijs" driver, and printing is perfect, so it's not a connection/printer problem. In gutsy, also the hpijs driver does not work.

In the current state of things, I am completely unable to set-up a network printer from gutsy. We have to solve this before release.