Bug 147962

Summary:	Impossible to print test pages to printers not in /etc/printcap (i.e fake printers such as "Print to PDF-file"-printer)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Hans-Olof Hansson <hansolof.hansson>
Component:	kcmprintmgr	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Hans-Olof Hansson 2007-07-17 23:26:41 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.5 "release 45" , openSUSE 10.2)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.18.2-34-default

It is impossible to print test pages to printers not in /etc/printcap (i.e fake printers such as "Print to PDF-file"-printer). 

For all "special" printers that are created default from the system and such printers I create my self is it impossible to test-print a page. This is because the printer is not in /etc/printcap which is not strange (in it self) because it is a fake/virtual printer and not a real one. But, it makes it hard to test out the printer and ensure that it works as it is supposed to. 

Please make it possible to test print also these "fake/virtual" printers. 

I'm running suse 10.2, in swedish translation.

Comment 1 Hans-Olof Hansson 2007-07-17 23:28:52 UTC

Example and error message from the test print command. 

hanssh@hoth:~> cupsdoprint -P 'PDF-LBP5200' -J '' -H '/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631' -U 'root' -o ' multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-uncollated-copies orientation-requested=3' '/opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps'
client-error-not-found
hanssh@hoth:~>

Comment 2 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-07-26 23:58:46 UTC

-H '/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631' is a wrong argument.

Make sure to insert "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" as the setting in 

  "kaddprinterwizard --help" --> "CUPS Server" --> Host

Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:01:48 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Kcontrol has been replaced by System Settings in Plasma. Please give the latest version of that a try, and open a new bug in "systemsettings" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!