Upgrade printer-driver-ptouch to support Brother QL-570

[Pander]

Please, upgrade printer-driver-ptouch to support Brother QL-570 P-touch Label Printer. See https://bitbucket.org/philpem/printer-driver-ptouch/issues/2/negativeprint-and-cutmedia-jobend-doesnt (motivate maintainers of printer-driver-ptouch to bump their version number and release a version that supports QL-570) and also upgrade usbutils to include https://usb-ids.gowdy.us/read/UD/04f9/2028

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

For the usb.ids problem I added usbutils, hwdata, and libosinfo tasks, as according to "dpkg -S usb.ids" they all provide an usb.ids file.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

OdyX, can you update ptouch-driver to the newest version, to include the fix? Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ptouch-driver - 1.4-5-gf4ad445-1

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ptouch-driver (1.4-5-gf4ad445-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot
    - Add support for Brother QL-570 (LP: #1604036)

 -- Didier Raboud <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:38:59 +0200

[Phil Pemberton (philpem)]

Upstream version bumped to 1.4.1.

Be advised that there's an open ticket on QL-570 support: https://bitbucket.org/philpem/printer-driver-ptouch/issues/2/negativeprint-and-cutmedia-jobend-doesnt

Main issue is that media cutting apparently doesn't work 100% as described on QL printers. Unless/until I can get a QL570 (or someone lets me borrow one for a while), debugging this might be tricky.

[Pander (pander)]

Thanks. Already two people have offert their support for debugging that issue on such a printer they own. Hopefully, that can be tackled soon too.

[Phil Pemberton (philpem)]

I've managed to source a slightly-used QL-570 for a more reasonable price, along with (apparently) five rolls of labels. That should be arriving "soon-ish".

I'll have a look at the driver when I get a spare moment. As I've said on the upstream ticket, the negative-print bug looks like the thing losing track of a buffer and may be tricky to debug.

[Phil Pemberton (philpem)]

I've just released version 1.4.2 which fixes the two QL-570 bugs raised by Ladislav Laska.

Bug #1607917 open to (hopefully) get the upstream packages updated.

[Pander (pander)]

Thanks! https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/yakkety/amd64/printer-driver-ptouch/1.4.2-1 also installs on xenial

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Till, I don't think this bug has anything to do with libosinfo.