Bug 17431

Summary:	gutenprint from gimp doesn't work for okipage 8w Lite
Product:	Branch 4.0	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	gimp-plugin-gutenprint	Assignee:	Valery Inozemtsev <shrek>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Q.A. 4.0 <qa-4.0>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	4.0
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-10-04 03:37:30 MSD

4.0.3 --
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/4.0/Desktop/4.0.3/iso/altlinux-4.0.3-lite-i586-install_ru-cd.iso

How to reproduce: I opened an image in gimp:

$ gimp /usr/share/themes/ALTLinux-Lite/splash.png

, selected in menu "File" > "Print with Gutenprint", then tried to setup it for the printer. The real printer is "okipage 8w Lite". Such a printer wasn't present in the list of guteprint, so I selected "okipage 8p". Then I proceeded to print the image. The new job appeared in the print queue (lpq), but the printer did nothing. A few minutes passed, and the job disappeared from the queue.

Workaround: print the image from gqview. (Simple "lp" is not that convenient because it's more difficult to select the zoom and position in command line.)

Comment 1 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-10-04 04:38:51 MSD

I recalled that when configuring CUPS, I was able to select the correct model of the printer. So, it's not a model completely unknown to the world of GNU/Linux. /etc/cups/ppd/oki.ppd reads:

*FormatVersion:	"4.3"
*FileVersion:	"1.1"
*LanguageVersion: English 
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName:	"OKI4W.PPD"
*Manufacturer:	"Okidata"
*Product:	"(Okipage 8w Lite)"
*cupsVersion:	1.0
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsModelNumber:  2
*cupsFilter:	"application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip"
*%pprRIP:        foomatic-rip other
*ModelName:     "Okidata Okipage 8w Lite"
*ShortNickName: "Okidata Okipage 8w Lite oki4w"
*NickName:      "Okidata Okipage 8w Lite Foomatic/oki4w (recommended)"

etc.

So, gutenprint could also suggest an exact option for this printer.

But this comment is not essential: I doubt that the problem comes from an incorrect model specification in gutenprint's menu. I believe that simply gutenprint doesn't work well.

Comment 2 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-11-25 20:09:38 MSK

(In reply to comment #0)

> Workaround: print the image from gqview. (Simple "lp" is not that convenient because it's more difficult to select the zoom and position in
> command line.)

But still (gqview or whatever else), printing through the driver which is included in the distro is very bad: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17558 .

Comment 3 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-11-25 20:14:15 MSK

$ rpm -qa '*guten*'
libgutenprint-5.0.2-alt1.M40.1
gutenprint-foomatic-5.0.2-alt1.M40.1
gutenprint-5.0.2-alt1.M40.1
gimp-plugin-gutenprint-5.0.2-alt1.M40.1
$

Comment 4 Valery Inozemtsev 2008-11-25 20:23:10 MSK

my your not understand

Comment 5 Valery Inozemtsev 2009-01-03 20:09:29 MSK

для 4.0 только обновление безопасность