http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128467
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128467#c14
--- Comment #14 from Martin Wilck
Martin Wilck, can you provide some facts behind why you think "lots of printers out there will stop working" regardless that I wrote in comment #11 that "for each HPLIP <model>-hpijs.ppd.gz PPD file there is a matching <model>.ppd.gz PPD file (the PPD files without 'hpijs' use HPCUPS)" so that all models where HPIJS works should be also supported by HPCUPS.
What will happen to printers configured with hpijs, like mine? Will they be auto-magically be switched over to hpcups? If yes, who'll take care of mapping the different options of the two drivers to each other (think default paper size, quality)? Or will they suddenly be dysfunctional, or disappear? What will the user experience be for users who need to change / transition?
In other words: What HP printers out there where HPIJS works do not also work with HPCUPS?
That wasn't my point. I believe you that hpcups "works" with almost all models. I was talking about the transition. I just checked: on all SUSE systems I use, hpijs was configured for my officejet, and for my (meanwhile dead) Envy 5530 as well. I swear I have not actively overridden hpcups by hpijs. These printers have been set up on various systems using hp-setup from hplip 3.16.10 to 3.17.9. So it's not unlikely that others out there are using the same configuration. I have one Fedora system where the printer runs with hpcups (don't ask me why, it wasn't a concious decision either). I've just made the test on my OfficeJet 6950 - quality-wise, the output is about the same, perhaps the hpcups output is even slightly better, and it actually prints borderless photos, which I haven't figured out how to do with hpijs. OTOH, hpcups didn't get the bottom margin right on A4 and hpijs did. Altogether I agree that hpcups is probably a better, at least equally good, driver. I'm not generally against phasing out hpijs, but I don't think it's a good idea to do it as a reaction to the regression reported in this bug, and I do think it should be done with a suitable transition phase during which the hpijs is marked as deprecated and suggestions to switch the driver are made to users in some way. If users do that before the phasing-out happens, the transition will be smooth - it's no problem at all to use several printer queues with different drivers at the same time. (Btw, my OfficeJet has that "HP Fax 4" functionality. hp-setup configures it automatically for printers that support fax. I've never used it because my printer has no Fax connection). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.