Bug 185287 - cups printers with instances not usable
Summary: cups printers with instances not usable
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: qt (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Reported: 2009-02-23 00:35 UTC by Björn Jacke
Modified: 2009-03-08 20:06 UTC (History)
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Description Björn Jacke 2009-02-23 00:35:03 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

when you have a (cups) printer with instances (forks of a printer with different default settings), these instances are not recognisable in the printing dialog.

I have:

# lpstat -a
...
Officejet_7300 akzeptiert Anfragen seit Mo 02 Feb 2009 16:03:46 CET
Officejet_7300/2up akzeptiert Anfragen seit Mo 02 Feb 2009 16:03:46 CET
Officejet_7300/4up akzeptiert Anfragen seit Mo 02 Feb 2009 16:03:46 CET
Officejet_7300/Fotopapier akzeptiert Anfragen seit Mo 02 Feb 2009 16:03:46 CET
...

but in the KDE4 printing dialog I just see 4 printers called "Officejet_7300" - quite confising. All have the same settings, none of the 4 printers has for example the 2up feature enabled.
Comment 1 John Layt 2009-03-08 20:06:58 UTC 
This is reported as fixed in Qt 4.5.0:

http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=134820