Re: The printer setup

[Felipe Borges <felipe10borges gmail com>]

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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