Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012, 10:43:44 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Burkhard L?ck <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote: [snip] > > > > EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%203000 > > > > EPSON Stylus SX110: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20SX110 > > > > EPSON Stylus DX4400: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20DX4400 > > Hmm, I don't think we can safely write instructions for this. I think > system-config-printer might be doing some magic behind the scenes to > make this work, and even if it didn't, there's too much that could go > wrong in manually typing this in (case sensitivity, getting the model > name string perfect, etc.). > > IMHO if USB autodetection isn't working the appropriate course of > action would be to bug your distro's printing support maintainer(s). > ;-) > Agreed.
> >> > 2) It would be a valuable addition to explain the different connection > >> > > >> > types (AppSocket/HP JetDirekt, Internet Printing ipp, LPD/LPR, Windows > >> > > >> > Samba etc.) and their use cases (from the cups documentation?). > >> > >> I'll do this. Looks like I also need to fix the screenshot of this > >> > >> page. (I take screenshots in a seperate user account so my custom > >> > >> window style doesn't affect them, but I guess that account doesn't > >> > >> have permission to touch CUPS stuff so the connection type list is > >> > >> empty.) > >> > >> > 3) The content of Printer Options tab depends on the selected printer. > >> > > >> > E. g. cups-pdf has only 2 options, but an EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 has > >> > > >> > around 100 options on this page. > >> > > >> > A Hint explaining the different content of this tab should be added. > >> > >> Any chance you were exaggerating here? Or is this distro-specific > >> > >> too? The Stylus Color 3000 only has ~12 options on this page on my > >> > >> system. > > > > $ grep -c OpenUI /etc/cups/ppd/EPSON_Stylus_COLOR_3000.ppd > > > > $ 96 > > > > Afaik these options are taken from the ppd file for the printer, so they > > are printer/driver specific. > > % grep -c OpenUI /etc/cups/ppd/Stylus_Color_3000.ppd > 14 > > Maybe I picked a different driver, or maybe different distros ship > different drivers. Terrific. :-/ > > >> At any rate, I guess I'll have to look at a bunch of different > >> > >> printers and come up with a list of standard options here with a note > >> > >> that this varies wildly by printer/system/phase of the moon. > > > > Media Size, Print Quality, Media Type are the only common options for all > > printers (Brother HL-3040CN, EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000, EPSON Stylus SX110, > > Kyocera FS-1010, EPSON Stylus DX4400) here, except for cups-pdf, which > > only has Page Size + Output Resolution. > > Cool, guess I'll just document these three + cups-pdf since a lot of > people probably have that. (Oddly I don't, even though I see "Print > to PDF" listed as a printer in all KDE & GTK print dialogs.) > I just realized that cups-pdf should not be mentioned here, because I need that only for a non KDE application. Qt/KDE print dialog already has this option without the virtual pdf cups driver. > Maybe we could leave the rest in an "options present in random > printers members of the docs team happen to own" section?? ;-) > Yes. Thanks. -- Burkhard L?ck
