There will be a Printing Test Day[1] this Thursday, 2010-03-25. Have access to a printer? Please come along and join in!
This is an opportunity to try out the new automatic printer driver installation feature[2] in Fedora 13, as well as to give the printing system a bit of an exercise.
For the automatic printer driver installation to work properly we need your Device IDs! Many IDs are missing for current printers, and some existing IDs are incorrect. You can help fix this by running following the instructions in the test day page.
You don't need a Rawhide installation to provide useful feedback, just a nightly live image[3] will do.
The Test Day will run all day in Freenode IRC #fedora-test-day.
Tim. */
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-25_Printing [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticPrintDriverInstallation [3] http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:18:54 +0000 Tim Waugh wrote:
This is an opportunity to try out the new automatic printer driver installation feature[2] in Fedora 13, as well as to give the printing system a bit of an exercise.
I just tried my Brother HL-2040 on fedora 13 last night, and once again it decided it should pick the cups gutenprint hl-2060 driver, and once again, it didn't work - I had to manually change to the foomatic/hl1250 driver to get it to actually print. Harken's back to the days of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531370
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 10:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
I just tried my Brother HL-2040 on fedora 13 last night, and once again it decided it should pick the cups gutenprint hl-2060 driver, and once again, it didn't work - I had to manually change to the foomatic/hl1250 driver to get it to actually print. Harken's back to the days of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531370
That's weird. It's meant to be picking "Brother HL-2060 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e" -- this is the recommended foomatic driver, and foomatic is the only driver type that returns a Device ID matching yours. When I try plugging in your Device ID here, that's what I get.
Could you report another bug about it please? Sorry this seems so hard to get right for this device.
Tim. */
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:52:07 +0000 Tim Waugh wrote:
Could you report another bug about it please? Sorry this seems so hard to get right for this device.
Well, it is confusing me again. I tried reinstalling the printer and this time it did pick hpijs-pcl5e, but the default alignment is terrible. The whole confusing tale is here:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:15:11 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote:
Well, it is confusing me again. I tried reinstalling the printer and this time it did pick hpijs-pcl5e, but the default alignment is terrible. The whole confusing tale is here:
To balance this with more positive news, I found it much simpler to get DVDs to print in fedora 13:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/dvd/dvdp/f13-success.html
No more clipping off the top of the image with the default ppd file settings.
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:15 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
Well, it is confusing me again. I tried reinstalling the printer and this time it did pick hpijs-pcl5e, but the default alignment is terrible. The whole confusing tale is here:
Thanks, hopefully fixed now.
Tim. */
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