Bug 282387

Summary: Multi Tray Selection in Print Dialogue
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: hyper_ch <bugs.kde.org3>
Component: print-dialogAssignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: daniel, m.weghorn
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description hyper_ch 2011-09-20 09:13:03 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.1) 
OS:                Linux

In offices it's common to have a seperate first page for letters usually containing company logo and stuff. Because of that, multi-tray printing is essential.

What I noticed this far is that in LibreOffice I can setup page layouts and in those I can set the printer to use paper from a specified tray. This works good.

 However there are situations where you first want to make a test print out - be it a draft or something. In those situations you don't want to print directly on the (more expensive) company paper but use cheaper paper, maybe an alternate tray alltogether.

It seems to me that CUPS does support tray selection input for printing. On OSX you can setup in the printing dialogue multiple profiles (black and white, print all from tray X, print first page from tray Y and all other pages from tray Z, etc.).

I couldn't find a similar feature on Linux or KDE at all. The only thing I was able to find was the page setup in LibreOffice.

It would be great if such a tray selection / preference saving option would be added to the KDE print dialogue.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
not applicable
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2013-01-19 21:41:16 UTC 
*** Bug 270176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Michael Weghorn 2018-01-16 16:00:19 UTC 
The feature to select any option available in the printer's PPD file has just recently been (re)added to the Qt 5 print dialog (in it's current development branch), s. https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/213391/ and the corresponding upstream Qt bug https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-54464 .
This should make the selection of the tray selection available.

As far as saving of predefined "profiles" (with potentially different input trays) is concerned: CUPS does support multiple so-called "instances" of a printer, s. https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html, section "https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html". Those are supported by the Qt print dialog which makes it possible to have different sets of default values for a printer and switching between them by selecting the respective instance.
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:18:56 UTC 
Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann