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[Burkhard Lück]

Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012, 10:43:44 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote:
[snip]
> > 
> > EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%203000
> > 
> > EPSON Stylus SX110: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20SX110
> > 
> > EPSON Stylus DX4400: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20DX4400
> 
> Hmm, I don't think we can safely write instructions for this.  I think
> system-config-printer might be doing some magic behind the scenes to
> make this work, and even if it didn't, there's too much that could go
> wrong in manually typing this in (case sensitivity, getting the model
> name string perfect, etc.).
> 
> IMHO if USB autodetection isn't working the appropriate course of
> action would be to bug your distro's printing support maintainer(s).
> ;-)
> 
Agreed.

> >> > 2) It would be a valuable addition to explain the different connection
> >> > 
> >> > types (AppSocket/HP JetDirekt, Internet Printing ipp, LPD/LPR, Windows
> >> > 
> >> > Samba etc.) and their use cases (from the cups documentation?).
> >> 
> >> I'll do this. Looks like I also need to fix the screenshot of this
> >> 
> >> page. (I take screenshots in a seperate user account so my custom
> >> 
> >> window style doesn't affect them, but I guess that account doesn't
> >> 
> >> have permission to touch CUPS stuff so the connection type list is
> >> 
> >> empty.)
> >> 
> >> > 3) The content of Printer Options tab depends on the selected printer.
> >> > 
> >> > E. g. cups-pdf has only 2 options, but an EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 has
> >> > 
> >> > around 100 options on this page.
> >> > 
> >> > A Hint explaining the different content of this tab should be added.
> >> 
> >> Any chance you were exaggerating here? Or is this distro-specific
> >> 
> >> too? The Stylus Color 3000 only has ~12 options on this page on my
> >> 
> >> system.
> > 
> > $ grep -c OpenUI /etc/cups/ppd/EPSON_Stylus_COLOR_3000.ppd
> > 
> > $ 96
> > 
> > Afaik these options are taken from the ppd file for the printer, so they
> > are printer/driver specific.
> 
> % grep -c OpenUI /etc/cups/ppd/Stylus_Color_3000.ppd
> 14
> 
> Maybe I picked a different driver, or maybe different distros ship
> different drivers.  Terrific.  :-/
> 
> >> At any rate, I guess I'll have to look at a bunch of different
> >> 
> >> printers and come up with a list of standard options here with a note
> >> 
> >> that this varies wildly by printer/system/phase of the moon.
> > 
> > Media Size, Print Quality, Media Type are the only common options for all
> > printers (Brother HL-3040CN, EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000, EPSON Stylus SX110,
> > Kyocera FS-1010, EPSON Stylus DX4400) here, except for cups-pdf, which
> > only has Page Size + Output Resolution.
> 
> Cool, guess I'll just document these three + cups-pdf since a lot of
> people probably have that.  (Oddly I don't, even though I see "Print
> to PDF" listed as a printer in all KDE & GTK print dialogs.)
> 
I just realized that cups-pdf should not be mentioned here, because I need 
that only for a non KDE application. 
Qt/KDE print dialog already has this option without the virtual pdf cups 
driver.

> Maybe we could leave the rest in an "options present in random
> printers members of the docs team happen to own" section??  ;-)
> 
Yes.

Thanks.

-- 
Burkhard Lück