Re: The printer setup

[Felipe Borges <felipe10borges gmail com>]

Hello Leslie,

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Leslie S Satenstein
<lsatenstein yahoo com> wrote:
> Hola Felipe
>
> Please look at the printer setup for Gnome 3.22 (Fedora 25).  The test
> button with 3.22 allows me to see the extreme width/height. that my bro
> HL2250DN can do and also shows how the driver handles shading /
> black--gray--white continuum.

I will backport the patch and land the Test Button as an update then.
It might take a week to be available.

> The 3.24 system logic chose a simple driver model, I use the alternative
> (same driver, with more tweaking options).

I am going to revisit the automatic driver selection logic to try to
improve this situation. For now, you could go to the Printer Details
dialog and manually select a driver from the database. Does that work
for you?

> Regards
>
>  Leslie
> Leslie Satenstein
> Montréal Québec, Canada
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Felipe Borges <felipe10borges gmail com>
> To: Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein yahoo com>
> Cc: "docs-feedback gnome org" <docs-feedback gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 6:13 AM
> Subject: Re: The printer setup
>
> Hello Leslie,
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Leslie S Satenstein via docs-feedback
> <docs-feedback gnome org> wrote:
> > What has happened to printer setup.  The button to test print a page is
> > omitted.
>
> We had implemented a major redesign of the Printers settings and the
> Test Page button has been left out. It is back in GNOME 3.24.
>
> > True Gnome selects a driver, but it did not choose the driver that I
> > needed.
> > It chose a driver with less functionality.
>
> Would you mind providing the printer model you have?
>
> > And how can I judge if the chosen driver prints to top,bottom,left,right
> > edges?
>
> There is a Printer Options dialog which allows you to tweak that.
>
>
> > Gnome 3.22 printer setup provided a test page to show a frame -- the
> > limits for the physical printer.
> > Further, The test facility also depicted how well the "driver" printed
> > shading or rainbow.
> > My printers are laser ones. They have toner, not ink.  Why is my printer
> > shown as an ink printer.
>
> > The Brother drivers report information about printer toner amounts and
> > that
> > it is a laser printer.
> >
> > Please stop rushing to provide new features until they are properly
> > tested.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >  Leslie
> > Leslie Satenstein
> > Montréal Québec, Canada
>
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