Bug#694945: foomatic: cannot get PPD for Canon-PIXMA-iP3000 and many others
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:38:17PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:49:53AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:45:07PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > Package: foomatic-db-engine
> > > Version: 4.0.8-3
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > There are apparently 3 CUPS drivers in Debian for the Pixma iP3000:
> > >
> > > gutenprint.5.2://bjc-PIXMA-iP3000/expert
> > > foomatic:Canon-PIXMA-iP3000-gutenprint-ijs.5.2.ppd
> > > foomatic:Canon-PIXMA-iP3000-gutenprint-ijs-simplified.5.2.ppd
> >
> > I have no idea why CUPS is using foomatic drivers here.
> > The native CUPS driver is preferred.
>
> It was a test I wanted to do, to check if the foomatic one would
> support features not found in the gutenprint one (notably head cleaning)
It's exactly the same driver, just using the foomatic/ijsgutenprint/ijs/gs
workflow instead of the native CUPS driver. It's really only useful for
people using non-CUPS spoolers like LPRng. It would be much less effort
for the other spoolers to just support using CUPS filters! The foomatic
stuff for gutenprint appears to break reasonably often--at least, that's
the impression I get from the bug reports.
> Well, I can't tell if there are printers for which they are useful.
> But there are definitely things that could be improved, like making
> sure drivers for a single printer sort close enough in the list :)
I thought that it was ordered by manufacturer/model, with the
driver in parentheses following (at least in the web UI).
Regards,
Roger
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