http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492690 User federico@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492690#c3 --- Comment #3 from Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com> 2009-04-07 13:51:38 MDT --- (In reply to comment #2)
What exactly is "the Printing capplet in the control center"? Which "control center"? - i.e. which desktop system?
This is GNOME's control center, and system-config-printer.
For a HP Laserjet 1200 the Omni driver is a very poor choice. There are much better drivers avaialable for a true PostScript printer (prefer the HPLIP/hpijs driver or the original PPD from HP in the manufacturer-PPDs package).
Oh, yeah, I found it odd that the Omni driver got picked by default (previous versions of openSUSE would offer me Gutenprint or PostScript). Should I file a bug about this incorrect default? I don't think this is a problem in system-config-printer itself. After my initial attempt didn't work, I erased all print queues and used YaST's printer setup tool to configure a printer again. It also offered me only the Omni driver. By the way, I just tried to add the printer again from YaST. It offered me the Omni driver, so I clicked on "add driver", removed Omni, and added Gutenprint plus the normal PostSript driver. Eventually it said that PostScript was the recommended one; I chose that one and printing works now. It seems that we have two bugs, then? 1. Omni drivers are installed and used by default, even though you shouldn't use them. 2. "Good" drivers are not installed by default? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.