The printer setup tools can only choose drivers as well as they know the printer. In this case (Xerox ... connected via ethernet) it simply encountered an unknown model name and so it defaults to the generic text printer (upstream behavior of the tool). If the printer had been on USB or parallel it would report its device ID containing also information about its page description languages and so the Generic PostScript Printer (or Generic PCL ... Printer) would be selected (who has that printer please try it on USB or parallel). On an ethernet connection unfortunately only make and model name are available to the printer setup tool.
Possible improvement would be that system-config-printer if it does not find a match, does not assign a default PPD but manufacturer name "Generic" and "Unknown" as model, so that in the model step a newly added entry "Unknown" is pre-selected and the "Forward" button grayed out until the user selects something else. -- printer auto-detection does the wrong thing for unknown printers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102389 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
