Nothing of CUPS or system-config-printer renames or removes queues
automatically. Also cups-browsed does not do a renaming as described
here, especially it does not touch local USB printers.
So my bet is HPLIP. It has a facility to automatically set up HP
printers, probably badly competing with the USB printer auto setup of
system-config-printer which we (and many other distros) are using for
years. Therefore I am moving this bug to HPLIP. Also the queue names
with lower-case "hp"and underscores look much like from HPLIP.
Kees, did you see a dialog of HPLIP popping up right after login, asking
yo to create or re-configure HP printers? How did you answer this
dialog?
To the HPLIP developers at HP, please avoid the following automatic
actions:
- Do not rename existing queues or do not remove them and create a new
queue with another name as replacement. This leads to problems with
shared printers. Better simply replace the PPD of an existing queue by
an updated version (but make sure user default settings do not get
lost).
- Note that most distributions already automatically set up USB printers
automatically, also PPDs are often automatically updated with the
installation of a new version of the HPLIP package of the distribution.
Please do not remove such queues and do only upgrade the PPD if it needs
upgrading and upgrade the URI to hp:/... when it is not already hp:/...
Downoad the HP plugin if needed by the printer or PPD. Pop up a dialog
only if there is something which needs to be done.
** Changed in: hplip (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: hplip
Status: New => Incomplete
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