CALL FOR TESTING
-----------------

Please add a comment to this bug report reporting about the results of
all tests which you did and attach files if needed, for example of bad
printouts (scan them), bad scans (photograph the original picture with
your digital camera if neede), log files (if needed). Report also if
other users have already reported here. We need as many reports as
possible.

Do not file new bug reports for problems which you encounter during this
test. Add them here.

Do everything what you usually do with your HP device and tell whether
everything still works as well as with HPLIP 1.7.1 in Feisty.

All reports will be read by the Ubuntu Release Team, by the HPLIP
developers at HP, and by me.

At first update your system to the current Feisty state:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then download the Printing Bug Info Script from

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript

execute it as described and attach its output. Run it again after the
testing of HPLIP 1.7.3 and also attach its output which you get then.

Please install the packages from

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/hplip/binary/

by downloading the .deb files and installing

- hplip
- hplip-data
- hplip-doc
- hpijs

with "sudo dpkg -i <package file name> <package file name> ...".

uninstall

- hpijs-ppds
- python-qt3

with "sudo dpkg -r --force-depends hpijs-ppds python-qt3".

Now do the following steps:

1. Remove all your print queues for HP printers.

2. Go into the menus and try to call HP Toolbox (in System ->
Preferences), HP Sendfax and HP Fax Address Book (in Applications ->
Office). If they are not there start the menu editor (System ->
Preferences -> Main Menu) and activate them. Then call the programs
again and tell what happens.

3. Do "sudo apt-get install python-qt3" and repeat step 2. What happens
now?

4. Call "hp-setup", either from via

sudo hp-setup

from the command line or by choosing

Device -> Setup New Device

in the HP Toolbox. Enter your password in the password dialog.

5. Follow the steps in the wizard which has appeared now to set up your
print queues. Does it work? Do all devices get detected correctly? Do
you get offered the correct drivers/PPD files? Do this for all your HP
printers and multi-function devices. Let the field for printing a test
page checked. Does the test page come out correctly?

6. In the HP Toolbox go through the tabs, are the ink/toner levels
correctly displayed? Is the front panel display correctly reproduced
(only devices with monochrome text LCD)? Can you clean the print heads
(only inkjets)?

7 Can you set the printing options on the "Print Settings" tab? Are all
options shown which you can also see in the "Properties" sub-dialog of
the printing dialog of OpenOffice.org or under right-click ->
"Properties" in the gnome-cups-manager (System -> Preferences ->
Printing)? Does changing these options influence the printout (user who
runs the Toolbox and who prints must be the same). Does printing from
applications work correctly? Do your typical printing tasks.

8. Do the buttons for the functions on the first tab of the Toolbox
work?

9. If your device has a scanner, does it work correctly? Can you scan
your printed test page? Does the ADF (if you have one) work correctly?
Can you also access the scanner via scan functions in OpenOffice.org,
DigiKam, or other applications?

10. If are using the fax part of your device, try it out, too. Does it
work as before? Or better? Or worse?

11. Remove your print queues and re-create them with the web interface
of CUPS (http://localhost:631/). Click the "Administration" tab. If
asked for login and password, enter your login and password. When
selecting the "Device", choose devices with "HPLIP". Try out printing
(repeat step 7) and faxing (step 10).

12. Remove your print queues and re-create them with the gnome-cups-
manager (System -> Preferences -> Printing, if gnome-cups-manager
crashes, see bug 91218) or with the KDE Printing Manager in case of
Kubuntu. When selecting the detected printer or printer port, choose
devices with "HPLIP". Is there something with "device_not_found" listed?
Are there two absolutely equal entries in any of the lists? Try out
printing (repeat step 7) and faxing (step 10).

13. Especially report if something does not work any more as it worked
with HPLIP 1.7.1 on Feisty (a regression).

14. Test also whether you can reproduce the bugs listed in the initial
posting. If one or more of them persist, please tell here.

15. If you are suffering any regression bug and want to return to HPLIP
1.7.1, do

sudo dpkg -r --force-depends hplip hplip-data hplip-doc hpijs
sudo apt-get install hplip hplip-data hplip-doc hpijs

and answer all questions with "y".

16. If you are content with HPLIP 1.7.3, report here, too, and do not
uninstall HPLIP 1.7.3. Use it, and if you find a bug later, report it
here in an additional comment.


** Changed in: hplip (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Needs Info

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Feisty UVF ER: New HPLIP 1.7.3 release fixes lots of bugs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/98520

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