Ubuntu
system-config-printer package

printer test page should contain driver data (wishlist)

Bug #31504 reported by Mark Van den Borre
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cups-filters (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Lars Karlitski
system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Lars Karlitski

Bug Description

(This report pertains to Ubuntu 2005.10 "Breezy Badger")

If I print a test page from the printer properties window, I get no driver or settings information on the printed test page.

It would be nice to have things like:

* printer driver used
* network/local parallell/ local USB/... information
* source ip from which printed
*...

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Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) wrote :

+1

Matthias Klose (doko)
Changed in gnome-cups-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

We have changed the default print management system in Ubuntu from gnome-cups-manager to system-config-printer because g-c-m is no longer maintained. Re-assigning. Is this better in s-c-p?

Changed in gnome-cups-manager:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Tim Waugh (twaugh) wrote :

No, still applies to s-c-printer.

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era (era) wrote :

+1

Why is this even Incomplete (and now Expired)?

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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :

No questions outstanding.

Changed in system-config-printer:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Suco (sucotronic) wrote :

+1
It would be great also to see the name of the machine.

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MillenniumBug (millenniumbug) wrote :

This bug report is several years old and concerns obsolete versions of Ubuntu. It has now been marked 'invalid'.

If the bug still appears in Ubuntu 10.10, feel free to open a new report.

Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Mark Van den Borre (markvdb)
Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :

I just printed a test page from a freshly installed Ubuntu 10.10 to verify if this wishlist bug is still relevant. It is. Anyone could check that with a few minutes of effort.

Reopening. Please point me in the right direction if wishlist bugs need to be reported outside Malone.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Mark Van den Borre, the test page which you are searching for is the original CUPS test page. You can make system-config-printer using it by taking away the test pages provided by system-config-printer. Simply move the files

/usr/share/system-config-printer/testpage-a4.ps
/usr/share/system-config-printer/testpage-letter.ps

to another place and system-config-printer will use the original test pages.

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era (era) wrote :

Till Kamppeter: thanks for the workaround. The wishlist item remains; I think Ubuntu's default printer test page should include this information, instead of a purely static page.

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Lars Karlitski (larsu) wrote :

Why are these files in the system-config-printer package at all? They're not upstream and they don't change anything in s-c-p.

They should really be in the cups package.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)
Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Lars Uebernickel (larsu)
Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Lars Uebernickel (larsu)
Lars Karlitski (larsu)
Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.3.8+20120201-0ubuntu5

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system-config-printer (1.3.8+20120201-0ubuntu5) precise; urgency=low

  * remove debian/local/testpage-{a4,banner}.ps to make system-config-printer
    use the test page supplied by CUPS (LP: #31504)
 -- Lars Uebernickel <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:56:55 +0100

Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Fix Released
Lars Karlitski (larsu)
affects: cups (Ubuntu) → cups-filters (Ubuntu)
Changed in cups-filters (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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