Johannes Mueller-Lahn said the following on 05/16/2011 03:16 AM:
Hello,
im really helpless how to fix a printing bug in openSuSE 11.4. I wrote an email to this mailing list, by the beginning of last week, but sadly nobody answered. While waiting for answers I was filling the bug to KDE bugzilla, but they told me, that the printing dialog comes from QT, so wrote to their bugtracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-19233
I'm wondering, that nobody else has this problem. We can't print to an additional paper tray, if the tray 1 (manual) is also filled. In the days of kprinter, everything worked. There must be something wrong in the printer command sent to cups/printer.
My problem is, that I have 60 desktops, and nobody can print from KDE directly to A4 default paper (Tray 3).
Perhaps one reason I don't see this problem with my setup is that I don't let desktops print _directly_ to any printer. I have a file server that doubles as a print server for the whole network. All printers are attached to that server and all spooling and buffering is dealt with there. The machine has a goodly amount of spool space :-) There is no way desktops can access the printers directly. As it happens the fileserver/printspooler isn't running Suse; its running an old (2009) version of Mandriva. The critical thing was getting the PPDs set up correctly. You may find that it doesn't enable the additional trays Maybe something like this: *UIConstraints: *OptionTray3 False *InputSlot Lower *UIConstraints: *InputSlot Lower *OptionTray3 False I found that under /usr/share/cups/model/ there were PPDs for the various brands and then there was a /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs and that's where I found the PPDs that "worked" for my workstations. You may want to think about /usr/share and sharing it as a NFS. (I can since I have a very reliable file server!) There is a VIM plugin for editing PPDs :-) Note: The print _dialogue_ may come from Qt, but what's in that, the options and available settings, comes from the PPD. -- "I don't mind a parasite, I object to a cut-rate one" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org