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Bug#402909: Additional information to hplip



On Tue, 02 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schnitker wrote:
> hplip is the backend to the printer. the driver ppd is stored in hpijs and the 
> connection is through foomatic. 

NAK.  CUPS needs PPDs, and so does hplip.  hpijs does not need or care about
PPDs, and hpijs-ppds is so named because it stores PPDs *specific to hpijs*,
and not for any other reason.  It is the hpijs-ppds PPDs that need hpijs,
not the inverse.

foomatic will be removed from the picture in the not-so-distant future, this
work is being done upstream.

> 1.) it is necessary to add a dep to foomatic-db-hpijs in the hpijs package 
> too. foomatic won't work in my case.

NAK.  hpijs does not need, or care about foomatic-db-* or foomatic.  Or even
foomatic-filters, for that matter.

The hpijs PPDs need foomatic-filters to work, and that's it.

> 2.) I had trouble with foomatic-filters package. I had to completely reinstall 
> this package. Helps a little bit

Well, that's an issue to talk to the foomatic-filters package maintainer.

> 3.) You have to do as normal user in X-term a "sudo hp-setup" to get the 
> hp-fax queue because the queue is created within this step.

Yes.  Or you could create it directly with CUPS, if you tell it to use the
hp-fax backend with the proper uri, and the HP-Fax PPD... but hp-setup is
the easiest way indeed.

What is the bug you want to report regarding issue (3)?

> 4.) printing to the fax should result in opening hp-sendfax dialog to add a 
> recipient and fax-cover (This step is in my case NOT working). My opinion: 

Something is hideously broken with the PyQT in Debian, which hoses hplip fax
support.  Nobody so far has any clue on how to fix it.  Until that's fixed,
your faxing experiences with hplip will vary from "can't do it" to
"sometimes it works".  FYI, I am in the "can't do it" camp.

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