Tag: printing

  • Printing Test Day

    It’s that time again.  Fedora 16’s Printing Test Day is tomorrow, Thursday October 6th.  Come along and help make printing work better on Fedora! The Test Day page has instructions on what you need and how to test.

  • More D-Bus goodness in system-config-printer

    Previously I’ve described the D-Bus activation of dialogs in system-config-printer-1.3.  That D-Bus interface has been extended to help improve GNOME. Fedora 15 has been released for a little while now, including GNOME 3.  One of the great new features in this release of GNOME is the System Settings window.  It is easily accessed from the…

  • Adding a printer to CUPS

    The GNOME 3 printer settings module looks like it will be great. The plan for adding a new printer is deceptively ambitious: the user interface design is that you click “+”, choose a printer device, and then click “Add” and the job is done. For those unfamiliar with printing, this sounds easy enough. To make…

  • Presenting at OpenPrinting Summit today

    Just a quick note that I’ll be presenting by phone today, Thursday 15th April, at the OpenPrinting Summit on the topic of automatic printer driver installation in Fedora 13.  The talk is at 1600 UTC / 1700 BST, and was not Wednesday as scheduled.  The schedule hasn’t been updated yet, but when it is you…

  • Printer Device IDs wanted

    The new feature in Fedora 13 for installing printer drivers automatically makes it all the more important to have correct IEEE 1284 Device IDs for printers.  Unfortunately many drivers shipped in Fedora do not declare Device IDs for all the printers they support, and some of the ones we do have are wrong. You can…