Bug 1308688 - Selected wrong driver for Samsung CLP-310
Summary: Selected wrong driver for Samsung CLP-310
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-printer
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: All
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Zdenek Dohnal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-15 18:14 UTC by Justin Moore
Modified: 2016-12-20 18:44 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-12-20 18:44:59 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
CUPS troubleshoot log (30.75 KB, text/plain)
2016-02-15 18:14 UTC, Justin Moore
no flags Details
CUPS journalctl activity for printing the test page (136.37 KB, text/plain)
2016-02-15 18:15 UTC, Justin Moore
no flags Details

Description Justin Moore 2016-02-15 18:14:20 UTC
Created attachment 1127391 [details]
CUPS troubleshoot log

Description of problem:

I did a fresh install of Fedora 23 and attempted to print a test document to my Samsung CLP-310 printer, connected via USB. The printer whirs to life and Cups claims success, but nothing prints.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Kernel 4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64
Cups 2.1.3-1.fc23

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clean install of Fedora 23
2. Print test page

Actual results:

Printer hangs with Printer State status of "Idle - Sending data to printer"

Expected results:

Printed test page.

Additional info:

This exact same hardware was working under Fedora 20, but it got EOL'ed and I figured upgrading to 23 would be fine. Apparently not.

I did the CUPS troubleshooting tool and it said there was nothing it could figure out. I've attached the status page it provided.

Comment 1 Justin Moore 2016-02-15 18:15:29 UTC
Created attachment 1127392 [details]
CUPS journalctl activity for printing the test page

Here's

journalctl -u cups --since "2016-02-15 13:10:00"

Comment 2 Jiri Popelka 2016-02-16 11:51:48 UTC
(In reply to Justin Moore from comment #0)
> Created attachment 1127391 [details] (CUPS troubleshoot log)
> 'printer-make-and-model': 'Samsung CLP-350 Series PS'

Problem is that the printer has been configured to use CLP-350 drivers, even there are drivers for CLP-310 in splix and foo2qpdl packages.

You can install splix and/or foo2qpdl packages and then change the driver/Model
in Settings->Printers.

Comment 3 Jiri Popelka 2016-02-16 11:55:10 UTC
# python3 -c "import cupshelpers; cupshelpers.xmldriverprefs.test(xml_path='/etc/cupshelpers/',deviceid='MFG:Samsung;CMD:SPLC;MDL:CLP-310 Series;CLS:PRINTER;STATUS:IDLE;')"

1  Samsung-CLP-315.ppd.gz
    (manufacturer-cmd, exact-cmd)
2  foomatic:Samsung-CLP-315-foo2qpdl.ppd
    (foomatic-recommended-nonpostscript, exact-cmd)
3  drv:///splix/splix-samsung.drv/clp310.ppd
    (splix, exact-cmd)
4  foomatic:Samsung-CLP-310-foo2qpdl.ppd
    (foomatic, exact)

# rpm -q --provides splix
postscriptdriver(samsung;clp-310_series;)

# rpm -q --provides foo2qpdl
postscriptdriver(samsung;clp-310_series;)

Comment 4 Justin Moore 2016-02-16 15:41:06 UTC
I installed the splix and foo2qpdl packages and updated the driver to the Samsung CLP-315 model. Printing now works.

Leaving this open for now to see if there's any fixes to be applied to the install/detection process to let other CLP-31[05] owners know what to do in this situation.

Thank you.

Comment 5 Jiri Popelka 2016-05-18 08:14:15 UTC
Upstream pull request:
https://github.com/twaugh/system-config-printer/pull/39

Comment 6 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-06-24 10:41:34 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 7 Michael Abbott 2016-08-15 10:54:04 UTC
I would like to report the same bug for a slightly different printer and with a workaround:

1. On a clean install if I use the printer manager tool to install my CLX-3175 printer, the printer appears to install ok, but prints nothing.

However:

2. If the foo2qpdl package has been installed before installing the printer through the printer manager tool then I get a working printer.

So: whatever algorithm is used by the printer manager tool to install the printer is wrong, and the resulting failed printer is very difficult to diagnose -- using system-config-printer as suggested by one Fedora help page basically produced the response "sorry, can't help".

On the other hand, an easy workaround is to install foo2qpdl first ... if only I'd known!

P.S.  The colour profile for this printer is *dreadful*, but guess that's a totally unrelated issue!

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