As for the A4 vs. Letter, hp-setup installs the printer using whatever
defaults are in the PPD and/or are supplied by CUPS. HPLIP does not alter
any settings during adding a printer. As you suggested previously, I may
change this in the future.

On 4/1/07, Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Dave White, thank you very much for your long report.
>
> Did you download my packages AFTER 2007-03-30 13:26:10 CEST? If you are
> not sure, re-download and install them again, as I have replaced them by
> new packages at that time. My new version contains a fix concerning
> parallel printers, so it can be helpful on your problems.
>
> > printerbuginfo missing stderr complaint that "No packages found
> matching libgnomeprint2.2-0."
>
> This is no problem. The script checks the presence and version of a
> certain amount of packages. It perhaps simply lacks an update for a
> recent change in Feisty. For our test this is not relevant, as it is not
> affected by libgnomeprint2.
>
> > Step 2. HPLIP fails to start. Get bouncing icon for 3 minutes. Is there
> a way to kill it? Rebooted.
> > No HP FAX/Scan capability so skipped to step 3.
>
> Sorry, I did not say that test step 2 does not apply to Kubuntu. The
> situation of missing Python Qt in Kubuntu does not exist. The fallback
> which I wanted to trigger in this step is irrelevant for Kubuntu. So
> ignore this problem. This is neither a bug in the HPLIP packaging nor a
> regression in HPLIP 1.7.3, it is a bug in my testing scheme presented
> here.
>
> > Test page has banding in graphic.
> [...]
> > CUPS recommended gutenprint. Set it to crop, printed test page. No
> banding present!!!
>
> As the banding problem occurs only with HPLIP and not with Gutenprint
> this seems to be a bug in the HPIJS driver. Did this problem already
> occur before you updated to HPLIP 1.7.3? Does it persist if you
> downgrade to 1.7.1 (instructions in my testing step 15).
>
> Don, Raghu, Aaron, can you check whether the HPIJS driver of HPLIP 1.7.3
> works correctly with the HP DeskJet 960C device class?
>
> > Bottom of bounding box (line below hp logo) is clipped,
> > probably because it defaults to A4 paper. (Couldn't you use my timezone
> to guess I'd want
> > letter?)
>
> Check the paper size default setting in ~/.cups/lpoptions and in
> /etc/cups/ppd/<your printer>.ppd. How is it set?
>
> Don, Raghu, Aaron, how do you set the default paper size when you create
> a queue with hp-setup. I observed in older HPLIP versions that I always
> got Letter and I need A4 as default in Europe. The best solution would
> be to check /etc/papersize and/or the internationalization setting
> (command "locale", "LC_..." environment variables instead of using a
> static default setting.
>
> > Print control tab display is clipped, in middle of "The printer is
> currently NOT SET AS DEFAULT", > approximately mid-"e" of "The".
>
> This is a purely cosmetic problem, see my answer to Johnny Levai in my
> previous posting.
>
> > OpenOffice subdialog is a subset of controls offered by HPLIP.
>
> This is correct. OpenOffice.org only shows the printer-specific options
> (defined in /etc/cups/ppd/<your printer>.ppd) and not the options
> provided by CUPS (N-up, Brightness, Gamma, ...). This is a missing
> feature of OpenOffice.org. File a feature request on the OpenOffice.org
> web site.
>
> > Current toolbox settings do NOT appear in OpenOffice Print dialog,
> even though OO started after > changes were made. Requested Landscape, 2
> sheets/page in toolbox. OO printed as 2 individual > portraits.
>
> OpenOffice.org seems to save printer options per-document. So if you
> start OpenOffice with an existing document, you will not get you option
> changes from the HP Toolbox. You should get them if you start
> OpenOffice.org with a new document. If your setting are correctly saved
> in ~/.cups/lpoptions but do not appear in OpenOffice.org, file a bug
> against OpenOffice.org.
>
> > Step 8. With Landscape, 2 up, 2 thin borders, mirror print, text file
> prints but text and right
> > edge of box are in unprintable region on right side of page. [I was
> expecting a "booklet" style
> > printout, but that didn't happen.]
>
> At first make sure that the default paper size is set to "Letter" (Use
> the KDE Printing Manager, the "Printers" tab of the CUPS web interface,
> or "sudo lpadmin -p <your printer> -o PageSize=Letter" on the command
> line). If the problem persists, unprintable margins in the PPD file are
> not correct.
>
> Did you have the same problem with HPLIP 1.7.1?
>
> Don, Raghu, Aaron, can you check the unprintable margins for the HP
> DeskJet 960 device class?
>
> > Step 11 - No HPLIP printer device, used HP960 parport.
>
> > Used HPLIP to print test page. It requested me to load plain paper even
> though printer still had
> > paper.
>
> HPLIP does not check whether there is actually paper in the printer. It
> always tells you to insert paper. This was the case also in every older
> HPLIP version which I know. So it is no regression.
>
> > HPLIP test page prints black and white low-res graphic, despite CUPS
> indicationg RGB or CMYK
> > color modes.
>
> Check the option settings inside the HP Toolbox. Or close the Toolbox,
> remove ~/.cups/lpoptions and start the Toolbox again.
>
> > Banding and clipping w cdj970 driver, though now banding runs parallel
> to each edge of color
> > wheel. Right edge and bottom of bounding box missing.
>
> The "cdj970" driver is obsolete, do not use it. HPIJS and Gutenprint
> should give much better results.
>
> > If I right click to bring up the HP960C printer menu in the KDE Printing
> Manager, then click on
> > Printer Tools, the flyout says "EPSON inkjet".
>
> This is a bug of the KDE Printing Manager. It does not adapt the
> "Printer Tools" menu to the actually installed printer.
>
> > Step 13 - Don't know if these are new or old bugs. Didn't have this
> recipe to follow previously.
>
> To determine whether you have found regressions, follow the instructions
> of downgrading to HPLIP 1.7.1 in my step 15.
>
> > FYI - CUPS is detecting Canon and EPSON printers on the parallel port,
> despite the fact that
> > there's only the HP960C on the port.
>
> This is a bug of Gutenprint and not of HPLIP or CUPS.
>
> The HPLIP problems which you have found are
>
> - Banding on printed images
> - Choice of default page size A4 or Letter
>
> Don, Raghu, Aaron, can you look into these? Thanks.
>
> --
> Feisty UVF ER: New HPLIP 1.7.3 release fixes lots of bugs
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/98520
>