** Description changed:
First I do not know if this is a CUPS issue or an Avahi issue.
I do not know whether Avahi or CUPS generates the files nor where they
are. They are not in /etc/avahi/services, where I expected to find them,
so they must lie somewhere in CUPS.
I have a printer installed in CUPS. I must use the driver from a
different model to make it work. Among other things I want avahi and
CUPS to show the printer name, consistently unless related to the print
driver used.
avahi-browse shows
Xerox_Phaser-6125 @ Hostname (correct)
Later however in Txt fields avahi-browse shows "product=(DocuPrint C525
A-AP)" .......... "ty=FX DocuPrint C525 A-AP v1.0" (incorrect printer
model but is the driver in use. Those fields relate to Product and type,
not driver)
The problem above I suppose is the "trickle don effect" from how CUPS
names the printer. In the CUPS web GUI I see
Queue Name Description Location Make and Model
Status
Xerox_Phaser-6125 Xerox_Phaser-6125 Home FX DocuPrint C525 A-AP
v1.0 Idle - "Waiting for printer to finish."
The Make and Model is not Make and model at all, rather it comes from
the driver used. I know it is commonplace to use say an HP LaserJet PS
driver when you want PostScript , like back in the day when I printed to
a LaserWriter, so I am not the only one that sees this.
Also, I think there should be a proper "representation" in the txt
fields as well icon as is done with AirScan/eSCL scanners advertisements
"representation=http://HOSTNAME./images/Icon.png"; as I believe some apps
will use this icon of the actual printer. This field should not be
required but optional. These days we connect many different OSs to Linux
and expect Linux to "do it all", and we still want it to look pretty and
correct. I know Apple in some cases uses the "representation" field.
This "representation" field too would have to tricke down from CUPS to
Avahi, as Avahi would only point to the file at
http://HOSTNAME:631/images/Icon.png. So it needs to hosted on the CUPS
web GUI.
- I also recently read that some distros (Debian?) are moving away from
- the GUI utilities to configure printers in favor of the CUPS web GUI ,
- making this more relevant than ever.
+ I also recently read that some distros are moving away from the GUI
+ utilities to configure printers in favor of the CUPS web GUI , making
+ this more relevant than ever.
+
+ edit-----------------------------------
+
+ On a second printer an HP Color Laserjet 2600N there is a similar issue
+ using the foomatic driver as "Recomended" appears in some dialogs as if
+ it is a recommended printer. The "recomended relates to it being the
+ recommended of the three available drivers for this printer model.
+
+ edit --------------------------------
+
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
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Title:
CUPS Avahi advertisements are wrong (CUPS or Avahi???)
Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
First I do not know if this is a CUPS issue or an Avahi issue.
I do not know whether Avahi or CUPS generates the files nor where they
are. They are not in /etc/avahi/services, where I expected to find
them, so they must lie somewhere in CUPS.
I have a printer installed in CUPS. I must use the driver from a
different model to make it work. Among other things I want avahi and
CUPS to show the printer name, consistently unless related to the
print driver used.
avahi-browse shows
Xerox_Phaser-6125 @ Hostname (correct)
Later however in Txt fields avahi-browse shows "product=(DocuPrint
C525 A-AP)" .......... "ty=FX DocuPrint C525 A-AP v1.0" (incorrect
printer model but is the driver in use. Those fields relate to Product
and type, not driver)
The problem above I suppose is the "trickle don effect" from how CUPS
names the printer. In the CUPS web GUI I see
Queue Name Description Location Make and Model
Status
Xerox_Phaser-6125 Xerox_Phaser-6125 Home FX DocuPrint C525 A-AP
v1.0 Idle - "Waiting for printer to finish."
The Make and Model is not Make and model at all, rather it comes from
the driver used. I know it is commonplace to use say an HP LaserJet PS
driver when you want PostScript , like back in the day when I printed
to a LaserWriter, so I am not the only one that sees this.
Also, I think there should be a proper "representation" in the txt
fields as well icon as is done with AirScan/eSCL scanners
advertisements "representation=http://HOSTNAME./images/Icon.png"; as I
believe some apps will use this icon of the actual printer. This field
should not be required but optional. These days we connect many
different OSs to Linux and expect Linux to "do it all", and we still
want it to look pretty and correct. I know Apple in some cases uses
the "representation" field. This "representation" field too would have
to tricke down from CUPS to Avahi, as Avahi would only point to the
file at http://HOSTNAME:631/images/Icon.png. So it needs to hosted on
the CUPS web GUI.
I also recently read that some distros are moving away from the GUI
utilities to configure printers in favor of the CUPS web GUI , making
this more relevant than ever.
edit-----------------------------------
On a second printer an HP Color Laserjet 2600N there is a similar
issue using the foomatic driver as "Recomended" appears in some
dialogs as if it is a recommended printer. The "recomended relates to
it being the recommended of the three available drivers for this
printer model.
edit --------------------------------
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
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