The problem is that often the model information which a printer reports back on an auto-detection request (device ID) is not in printer database at it is not known to us. And as it often does not match the exact writing of the human-readable printer name in the printer list, the matching sometimes fails.
In printerdrake which I have developed at Mandriva in the last 6 years, I have implemented a fuzzy matching which succeeds in very many cases (but is also not 100% perfect). If we replace the unmaintained gnome- cups-manager by printerdrake, probably many of these issues will go away. See feature request: https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/printerdrake ** Changed in: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- Wrong printer model is preselected when adding a HPLIP printer https://launchpad.net/bugs/54362 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
