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Fedora Test Days

Printing

Date	2011-03-29
Time	all day

Website	QA/Fedora_15_test_days
IRC	#fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list	test

Can't make the date?
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Printing.

There are several parts to this, and in Fedora 15 the situation is slightly more complicated due to developments in GNOME 3.

In previous Fedora releases the application used in GNOME for configuring printers was system-config-printer. In GNOME 3 parts of that application are being replaced by more tightly-integrated functionality in GNOME itself:

print job notifications are now implemented in gnome-settings-daemon
status feedback is expected to be implemented there soon as well
a new control center module for printing has been implemented

This test day is for testing all aspects of printing, including setting up the printer, sharing printers on the network, and printing jobs.

If you see a problem and are not sure which component is to blame, the Debugging Printing page can help you to diagnose it.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

Development - Tim Waugh (twaugh), Marek Kasik (mkasik)

Prerequisite for Test Day

A printer
An updated Fedora 15 pre-release, or a nightly live image (the desktop image is suggested).

In case of problems with the nightly images, the images below were built on Friday (2011-03-25) and work sufficiently for testing printing:

Architecture	SHA256SUM
i686	265b1fb33eee38e9ab1d50956d0e51863c954246de804e47aa07226c12c00cfb
x86_64	c296855801edac87e7571e28b6f578ffbe29acfe6937ceb4fe8ecf5a529c557b

How to test?

A variety of printing tasks should be attempted, including:

Configuring a printer not yet known to the system
Printing a test page
Printing something more complicated, e.g. OpenOffice document, PDF, email
Taking advantage of extra print features of your printer e.g. duplexing, stapling

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora 15 Alpha, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. Or:

Live image

Optionally, you may download a non-destructive Fedora 15 pre-release live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD. The most recently built images can be found here (the desktop image is suggested).

Test Cases

Connecting a local printer: Expected behavior is that when a new local printer is connected, drivers will be installed as needed, a queue will be created for it, and the user will see a notification message about it.

Checking the Device ID is correctly listed
The hpijs, gutenprint-cups, foomatic-db-ppds and foomatic packages all contain tags that associate them with the Device IDs for the printers they support. If you are not given the opportunity to install one of these packages when your printer is supported by them, it may be that they do not list its Device ID correctly. You can check this by running /usr/share/system-config-printer/check-device-ids.py as root.

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla. Choose the correct component:

gnome-settings-daemon for problems relating to job reporting and printer status feedback in GNOME Shell
control-center for problems specific to printer administration in GNOME Shell e.g. the new system settings module
cups for printing problems that persist even when using command line utilities such as lp
gtk2 for printing problems common to all GTK+ applications using the GTK+ print dialog
system-config-printer for bugs in the printing configuration program used in GNOME fallback mode and in other graphical environments

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

User	Printer	Connect local	Reconnect local	Network printing	Copies/pages/duplex	Status feedback	References
Sample User	HP LaserJet 5	none	none	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
Oscar Osta	HP DeskJet F380	pass	pass ^[1]	none	pass ^[2]	none	↑ The dialog box does not verify the driver installed. The dialog box appears in the "Connect" and "Reconnect". ↑ Test Page
Tim Waugh	Epson Stylus D78	fail ^[1]^[2]	none	none	none	none	↑ No queue added RHBZ #691701 ↑ Can't add queue RHBZ #691705
Tim Waugh	HP PSC 2210	warn ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]	pass ^[5]	none	pass	fail ^[6] ^[7]	↑ Good: Driver automatically installed ↑ Good: Got job printing/printed notifications successfully ↑ Bad: Page size was wrong RHBZ #691714 ↑ Bad: automatic queue not shown in Printers part of System Settings without refresh RHBZ #691718 ↑ Good: Queue is disabled on disconnect and re-enabled on reconnect ↑ Not implemented? RHBZ #691744 ↑ Jobs list not updated automatically RHBZ #691737
Tim Waugh	HP DeskJet 990Cxi	pass ^[1]^[2]^[3]	none	none	fail ^[4]^[5]	none	↑ Good: Driver automatically installed ↑ Good: Got job printing/printed notifications successfully ↑ Bad: no chance to say it has a duplexer, so by default it is not available (just not implemented yet? Hopefully will be fixed once we can set printer options...) ↑ Libreoffice generates its own copies RHBZ #691761 ↑ Firefox assumes everyone uses US Letter RHBZ #691762
jlaska	Canon iR5570	none	none	pass ^[1] ^[2]	fail ^[3] ^[4]	none	↑ GNOME#646100 - Unable to change default network printer ↑ RHBZ #FIXME - Unable to print test page to network printer ↑ RHBZ #691855 - duplex + even_pages prints '1' instead of '10' ↑ RHBZ #691857 - 2-4,3 collated - printed 2,3,' ',3 and 2,3,' ',3 (page 4 was blank)
Gianluca Sforna	HP Photosmart C4472	warn ^[1]^[2]^[3]	warn ^[4]^[5]	none	none	none	↑ Driver installed, print from gedit works ↑ After unplugging cable printer was corretly marked as such ↑ Disconnection was notified during print ↑ Replugging did not show any message ↑ Could print regularly from gedit
Tim Waugh	HP LaserJet 6MP (parallel port)	fail ^[1]	none	none	none	none	↑ Assertion failure; no queue added RHBZ #691808
Tim Waugh	HP LaserJet P3010	none	none	fail ^[1]	none	none	↑ Network printer detection by IP address/hostname not yet implemented
Luigi Votta	HP DeskJet 3325	pass	pass		inprogress	inprogress
Tim Waugh	HP DeskJet 990Cxi via network adapter	none	none	fail ^[1]^[2]^[3]	none	none	↑ Avahi not started RHBZ #647831 ↑ Can delete browsed printers RHBZ #691831 ↑ DNS-SD printer not shown in list RHBZ #691834
User	Printer	Connect local	Reconnect local	Network printing	Copies/pages/duplex	Status feedback	References

[1] Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321

[2] RHBZ #12345

[3] The dialog box does not verify the driver installed. The dialog box appears in the "Connect" and "Reconnect".

[4] Test Page

[5] No queue added RHBZ #691701

[6] Can't add queue RHBZ #691705

[7] Good: Driver automatically installed

[8] Good: Got job printing/printed notifications successfully

[9] Bad: Page size was wrong RHBZ #691714

[10] Bad: automatic queue not shown in Printers part of System Settings without refresh RHBZ #691718

[11] Good: Queue is disabled on disconnect and re-enabled on reconnect

[12] Not implemented? RHBZ #691744

[13] Jobs list not updated automatically RHBZ #691737

[14] Good: Driver automatically installed

[15] Good: Got job printing/printed notifications successfully

[16] Bad: no chance to say it has a duplexer, so by default it is not available (just not implemented yet? Hopefully will be fixed once we can set printer options...)

[17] Libreoffice generates its own copies RHBZ #691761

[18] Firefox assumes everyone uses US Letter RHBZ #691762

[19] GNOME#646100 - Unable to change default network printer

[20] RHBZ #FIXME - Unable to print test page to network printer

[21] RHBZ #691855 - duplex + even_pages prints '1' instead of '10'

[22] RHBZ #691857 - 2-4,3 collated - printed 2,3,' ',3 and 2,3,' ',3 (page 4 was blank)

[23] Driver installed, print from gedit works

[24] After unplugging cable printer was corretly marked as such

[25] Disconnection was notified during print

[26] Replugging did not show any message

[27] Could print regularly from gedit

[28] Assertion failure; no queue added RHBZ #691808

[29] Network printer detection by IP address/hostname not yet implemented

[30] Avahi not started RHBZ #647831

[31] Can delete browsed printers RHBZ #691831

[32] DNS-SD printer not shown in list RHBZ #691834

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-| {{result|fail}} <ref>{{bz|691855}} - duplex + even_pages prints '1' instead of '10'</ref> <ref>{{bz|FIXME}} - 2-4,3 collated - printed 2,3,' ',3  and 2,3,' ',3 (page 4 was blank)</ref>
+| {{result|fail}} <ref>{{bz|691855}} - duplex + even_pages prints '1' instead of '10'</ref> <ref>{{bz|691857}} - 2-4,3 collated - printed 2,3,' ',3  and 2,3,' ',3 (page 4 was blank)</ref>
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