On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:38:17PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:49:53AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:45:07PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > Package: foomatic-db-engine > > > Version: 4.0.8-3 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > There are apparently 3 CUPS drivers in Debian for the Pixma iP3000: > > > > > > gutenprint.5.2://bjc-PIXMA-iP3000/expert > > > foomatic:Canon-PIXMA-iP3000-gutenprint-ijs.5.2.ppd > > > foomatic:Canon-PIXMA-iP3000-gutenprint-ijs-simplified.5.2.ppd > > > > I have no idea why CUPS is using foomatic drivers here. > > The native CUPS driver is preferred. > > It was a test I wanted to do, to check if the foomatic one would > support features not found in the gutenprint one (notably head cleaning)
It's exactly the same driver, just using the foomatic/ijsgutenprint/ijs/gs workflow instead of the native CUPS driver. It's really only useful for people using non-CUPS spoolers like LPRng. It would be much less effort for the other spoolers to just support using CUPS filters! The foomatic stuff for gutenprint appears to break reasonably often--at least, that's the impression I get from the bug reports. > Well, I can't tell if there are printers for which they are useful. > But there are definitely things that could be improved, like making > sure drivers for a single printer sort close enough in the list :) I thought that it was ordered by manufacturer/model, with the driver in parentheses following (at least in the web UI). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
