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system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #131990
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 131990

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

I get the following:

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till@till-laptop:~/printing/system-config-printer/system-config-printer$ cd /usr/share/system-config-printer/
till@till-laptop:/usr/share/system-config-printer$ python -c 'import cups, ppds;c=cups.Connection();a=c.getPPDs();p=ppds.PPDs(a);print p.getPPDNameFromDeviceID("Canon","iP3000","Canon iP3000",uri="foo")'
No ID match for device foo:
  <manufacturer>Canon</manufacturer>
  <model>iP3000</model>
  <description>Canon iP3000</description>
  <commandset></commandset>
Using hpijs/HP/HP-LaserJet_1220-hpijs.ppd
(3, 'hpijs/HP/HP-LaserJet_1220-hpijs.ppd')
till@till-laptop:/usr/share/system-config-printer$
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It seems that when entering any unknown printer model always the PPD hpijs/HP/HP-LaserJet_1220-hpijs.ppd gets auto-selected. Should it not better be the Generic PostScript printer or the Generic text-only printer?