Bug#940019: cups: No more options for remote shared printers
Package: cups
Version: 2.3.0-3
Severity: important
Hi,
Since my last upgrade of cups on my laptop, I do not see any options
for remote printers. It affects me both at home (where I can access to
the cups server and can change something if need be) and at work (where
I do not have any access to the server). Both servers (at home and at
work) do not change. On my laptop, it worked with cups 2.2.10 (not sure
with 2.2.12). My home server is running cups 2.2.1-8+deb9u4 (stretch)
At work, the printers are discovered by cups-browsed as they are not
on the local network and a 'BrowsePoll print.work.domain:631' line
is required. At home, I've a linux server with cups that talk to a
local printer through a propriatory driver (Brother DCP-9020CDW printer)
I will talk about the situation at home (where I can access the server).
On the server, I see all options provided be the driver:
server $ lpoptions -l -p brother
PageSize/Media Size: *A4 Letter Legal Executive A5 A6 B5 JISB5 JISB6 EnvDL EnvC5 Env10 EnvMonarch Br3x5 FanFoldGermanLegal EnvPRC5Rotated Postcard EnvYou4 EnvChou3 210x270mm 195x270mm 184x260mm 197x273mm
BRDuplex/Two-Sided: DuplexTumble *DuplexNoTumble None
BRInputSlot/Paper Source: *AutoSelect Tray1 Manual
BRResolution/Print Quality: *600dpi 600x2400dpi
BRMonoColor/Color / Mono: *Auto FullColor Mono
BRMediaType/Media Type: *Plain Thin Thick Thicker BOND Env EnvThick EnvThin Recycled Label Glossy PostCard
BRColorMatching/Color Mode: *Normal Vivid None
BRGray/Improve Gray Color: OFF *ON
BREnhanceBlkPrt/Enhance Black Printing: *OFF ON
BRTonerSaveMode/Toner Save Mode: *OFF ON
BRImproveOutput/Improve Print Output: *OFF BRLessPaperCurl BRFixIntensity
BRSkipBlank/Skip Blank Page: *OFF ON
BRBrightness/Brightness: -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
BRContrast/Contrast: -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
BRRed/Red: -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
BRGreen/Green: -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
BRBlue/Blue: -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
BRSaturation/Saturation: -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
It was the same on my laptop before the new versions of cups.
But now:
laptop $ lpoptions -l -p brother
PageSize/Page Size: Custom.WIDTHxHEIGHT 11x14 11x17 13x19 16x20 16x24 2A 4A 8x10 8x12 A0 A1 A2 A3 *A4 A5 AnsiA AnsiB AnsiC AnsiD AnsiE ArchA ArchB ArchC ArchD ArchE C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 Env10 EnvC5 EnvDL EnvMonarch Executive ISOB0 ISOB1 ISOB2 ISOB3 ISOB4 ISOB5 JISB0 JISB1 JISB2 JISB3 JISB4 JISB5 Ledger Legal Letter RA0 RA1 RA2 RA3 RA4 SRA0 SRA1 SRA2 SRA3 SRA4 SuperA SuperB TabloidExtra Tabloid
Resolution/Output Resolution: 150dpi *300dpi 600dpi 1200dpi 2400dpi
And nothing more.
I cannot choose the DuplexMode, the gray/color, ...
These was presented to me in a 'Advanced' tab of the standard cups gtk dialog (for example with evince)
http://localhost:631/printers/ reports:
brother Brother DCP-9020CDW @ server Brother DCP-9020CDW CUPS, driverless, cups-filters 1.25.5
At work, we have big canon printers, and I cannot choose the staple mode, ... anymore.
It is really blocking for me: I have to log (ssh) to another computer
still in stretch to print my PDF :-(
For info:
laptop $ cat /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf | egrep -v '^(#| *$)'
DebugLogging file
BrowseRemoteProtocols dnssd cups
BrowseFilter NOT name copieur-[23]
BrowsePoll print.work.domain:631
LocalQueueNamingRemoteCUPS RemoteName
CreateRemoteRawPrinterQueues Yes
CreateIPPPrinterQueues All
IPPPrinterQueueType PPD
AutoClustering Yes
What can I do to get my printer options back (if possible avoiding to downgrade cups)?
Regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel
Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii cups-client 2.3.0-3
ii cups-common 2.3.0-3
ii cups-core-drivers 2.3.0-3
ii cups-daemon 2.3.0-3
ii cups-filters 1.25.5-1
ii cups-ppdc 2.3.0-3
ii cups-server-common 2.3.0-3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.73
ii ghostscript 9.28~~rc2~dfsg-1
ii libavahi-client3 0.7-4+b1
ii libavahi-common3 0.7-4+b1
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcups2 2.3.0-3
ii libgcc1 1:9.2.1-7
ii libstdc++6 9.2.1-7
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.23-1
ii poppler-utils 0.71.0-5+b1
ii procps 2:3.3.15-2+b1
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.7-4+b1
ii colord 1.4.4-1
ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.25.5-1
ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.3.1-7+b1
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 2.3.0-3
ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db] 20190820-1
pn hplip <none>
ii printer-driver-cups-pdf [cups-pdf] 3.0.1-5+b1
pn printer-driver-hpcups <none>
ii smbclient 2:4.9.13+dfsg-1
ii udev 242-7
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
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