From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010803 Description of problem: the wizard to add a new printer to printconf-gui does not ask about paper size and defaults to 'Letter' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): enigma How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open printconf-gui 2. add a new printer 3. restart lpd 4. print A4 postscript test page Actual Results: The HP LaserJat 4000N here complains about 'bad transmission' and fails to print the test page. Editing the printer, selecting 'A4' as paper size and restarting lpd solves the problem. Expected Results: the wizard to ask about paper size Additional info: considering that we already went gold I would suggest adding something along the following lines to our on-line gotchas for 7.2 [start] If you are having problems printing please try the following steps as a first measure: * log in in graphical mode * open a terminal * if you are not logged in as root, type 'su -' (no quotes) followed by your root password when prompted. * type 'printconf-gui' (no quotes) * select your printer * click 'Edit' * click 'Driver Options' * scroll down to 'Page Size' * select the size of paper your printer contains (A4, A3, US Letter,...) * click 'OK' * click 'Apply' * attempt to print [end]
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27116 ***
I alos run into the same problem. You configure a printer, you print the test page, nothing comes out of the printer. After some time you figure out that you forgot to ajust the paper size from letter to a4! The wizard should ask about the paper size! (you will save many people save a lot of time..)
Paper size is autodetected in the bleeding edge printconf package.