I was having this problem on Ubuntu 18.10 (WOW, THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN
AROUND FOR A VERY LONG TIME) with my HP LaserJet 500 color M551 printer.
When I tried to install it, the driver that kept getting selected was
"HP LaserJet 500 color M551, driverless, cups-filters 1.21.3". This,
despite the fact that I have "hpijs-ppds", "hplip", and "hplip-data"
installed.
I solved the problem by downloading the current version of HPLIP
directly from HP (https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/ or
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing), unpacking it,
locating the PPD for my printer in the source code ("hp-
laserjet_500_color_m551-ps.ppd"), and changing the configured driver of
the printer installed in Linux to specify that PPD directly rather than
using the recommended driver.
I think the problem here, or at least one of the problems here, is not
nearly all of the HP printer drivers are being installed by Ubuntu. In
particular, while I can't say for certain, it looks to me like the
hpijs-ppds package is only installing a few fax drivers, not the full
array of drivers available in HP's HPLIP package. I have no idea why
that's the case.
** Also affects: hplip (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428817
Title:
Print Dialog does not allow editing of page parameters
Status in gtk+2.0 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in hplip package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: cups-pdf
In Ubuntu-jaunty amd64,
Cups PDF driver does not allow us to change the paper size,
orientation, or anything. I would like to print my images from GIMP
to pdf, but they are wider than an A4 page, and so I cannot print them
to a whole pdf! I know PDF format can support multiple sizes. And
the options are there, just greyed out.
This is non-application specific. Firefox print dialog behaves the
same. OOo Print dialog doesn't even show the Cups PDF driver.
If those options are there, but are just greyed out, I would consider
this a problem. If the options have not been implemented, perhaps put
up a notice on that tab saying that they don't exist?
I hope whoever fixes this gets paid for it! Thanks for the awesome
work!
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