[Hardy SRU request] foomatic-rip does not handle enumerated-choice options with choices "True" and "False" correctly, leading to Duplex on most Ricoh printers not working

Here are the package source files with the fix:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/hardy/foomatic-filters/

and the debdiff is also attached.

Please consider this fix for Hardy, as most users of Ricoh printers have currently broken Duplex printing. And as Ricoh printers are large-scale laser multi-function devices (like office copiers) it is very common to print multiple copies with Collate and duplex options set on them.

Till, can you please re-prepare this as an SRU? It's too late to get this into Hardy now, it's not a bug that breaks installation. An SRU for it is fine.

Uploaded to hardy-proposed. However, we won't actually accept it until hardy is officially released.

Since this touches a rather general package, which isn't Ricoh specific, which other tests have been done with that version? I. e. was it tested on a couple of other printers, to ensure that there are no regressions?

I am doing my usual printing with the modified foomatic-rip and it did not occur any regression yet.

The fix is needed for all printers where

- The PPD file requires foomatic-rip (see "*cupsFilter: ..." line).
- There is an enumerated-choice option which has choices named "True" and/or "False" ("PickOne" option in PPD file).

Currently, there are probably only Ricoh PPDs fulfilling this, but as the Adobe specs do not forbid such options, it is not excluded that there will appear other PPDs needing this fix.

Please anyone who reads this, test the package I have supplied on

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/hardy/foomatic-filters/binary/

and see whether it does not break anything for your, and in case you have a Ricoh (or OEM) printer whether the bug gets fixed for your. Thanks.

Accepted into hardy-proposed, please test.

AFAIK, 'fix committed' is not correct here for intrepid at this time, setting back to 'triaged'

I by myself have tested whether this package fixes the problem already before posting it here, and in terms of possible regressions on other printers I have done my daily printing with the patched foomatic-rip and up to now everything works as before for me.

The fix for Intrepid will soon be done by updating the foomatic-filters package to the new 4.0 generation, a foomatic-rip re-implementation in C, mainly to support PDF instead of PostScript as standard print job format, but also to support CUPS' custom options, improve performance, and allow use of C libraries.

Ubuntu 8.04 test report for SRU of foomatic-filters 3.0

Guidelines
1. Verify that the bug “duplex not working when collate=true” is fixed in Ubuntu Hardy Stable Release update of foomatic-filters 3.0.

2. Test basic printing (Color mode, Resolution, Margin, Duplex, Collate) in Ubuntu 8.04.
Examine Postscript Driver print out for different job options

Equipment
Ricoh Aficio Color5560

Test Procedure
1. Examine Postscript Driver print out for different job options
a. Test Duplex when collate is set.
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS -n 2 -o Duplex=DuplexTumble -o collate=true ../../sample/3pages.ps
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS -n 2 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble -o collate=true ../../sample/3pages.ps
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS -n 2 -o Duplex=None -o collate=true ../../sample/3pages.ps

b. Verify multiple copies
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS -n 2 ../../sample/2pages.ps
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS -n 2 -o collate=true ../../sample/2pages.ps

c. Test Duplex
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble ../../sample/3pages.ps

d. Test basic printing, pagesize, colormode, resolution, text margin.
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS –o PageSize=Letter –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/textmargin.txt
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS –o PageSize=Letter –o ColorModel=CMYK –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/testprint.ps
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS –o PageSize=Letter –o ColorModel=Gray –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/testprint.ps
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS –o PageSize=A4 –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/textmargin.txt
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS –o PageSize=A4 –o ColorModel=CMYK –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/testprint.ps
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS –o PageSize=A4 –o ColorModel=Gray –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/testprint.ps

2. Examine PXL Driver print out for different job options
a. Test Duplex when collate is set
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL -n 2 -o Duplex=DuplexTumble -o collate=true ../../sample/3pages.ps
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL -n 2 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble -o collate=true ../../sample/3pages.ps
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL -n 2 -o Duplex=None -o collate=true ../../sample/3pages.ps

b. Verify multiple copies
The number of copies work only when collate is set to true or else it just print 1 copy.
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL -n 2 -o collate=true ../../sample/2pages.ps

e. Test Duplex
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble ../../sample/3pages.ps
lp -d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL -n 2 -o Duplex=DuplexTumble ../../sample/3pages.ps

f. Test basic printing, pagesize, colormode, resolution, text margin.
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL –o PageSize=Letter –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/textmargin.txt
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PXL –o PageSize=Letter –o ColorModel=Color –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/testprint.ps
lp –d Ricoh_Aficio_C5560_PS –o PageSize=Letter –o ColorModel=Grayscale –o Resolution=600dpi ../../sample/testprint.ps

Thank you very much for your tests, George.

Copied to hardy-updates.

Is this still an issue with 4.0 in intrepid? Please apply the fix to intrepid, or close the task as fixed if 4.0 is not affected.

The new foomatic-rip 4.0 is already in Intrepid for some weeks. I simply forgot to close the Interpid task here that time.

According to the developer of this foomatic-rip version the problem is fixed.

I upgraded to intrepid and I cannot duplex to a Ricoh Aficio 2060 and an Aficio MPC 3000. It was working well in hardy prior to the upgrade. I have all the latest updates and foomatic 4. How can I test if it is a similar bug?

Lars, the bug originally reported here is definitely fixed. In the PostScript workflow foomatic-rip 4.0 has also the correct output. The problem reported by mabawsa is a new problem, specific to the PDF workflow.

mabawsa, your problem is bug 299918, please follow the discussion there.