[cups] Canon MG5400 printer, can print from firefox...but from no other application

[Håkon Alstadheim]

On 01/13/2016 11:41 AM, peter wrote:
> hi,
>
>
> first:
> when installing the printer, cups looks for a driver and finds one.
> since it can print from firefox - can i assume that it got the right 
> driver or is this maybe the problem?
>

Could still be driver issue,  but I would double-check settings for 
paper-size. That is what always gets me. Wrong size in 
client/server/pysical printer , and you get an error.

Lots of times a not-so-well-supported printer will print just fine, but 
error conditions (like out of paper, wrong size paper) will not be 
propagated correctly to the user. So, check everything.

With my latest printer I have also had issues with locale settings, 
where the clients locale is not supported by the printer. I hacked 
around that by just making cups forget about whatever locale the job was 
submitted under. Not so nice, but the really ugly thing is that print 
jobs would just SOMETIMES disappear without a trace, depending on the 
client loale.

Since then (took a year if I remember correctly) Canon (yes, I know) 
came out with a driver-update that was a bit easier to work with. Still 
running wheezy in a VM just for the printer-driver though ...

If you want just any kind of output, you can usually make the printer 
output letter-size on A4 or vice versa, but it is better if you make the 
client and the printer agree on such things.

>
> second: is this printer supported at all?
> what kind of laser printer thats "cheap" in the long run for many 
> prints would you get that "just" works out of the box with linux?
>
>
> greetings
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