Comment 30 for bug 59409

Till, do you want hpfax: backend to return the MDL: of "Fax" and "Fax 2" or
the actual MDL: of the discovered device? Could you please provide a sample
of what you'd like to see?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Till Kamppeter <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Don, I have found the second fax file now in the source tree:
>
> fax/ppd/HP-Fax2-hplip.ppd
>
> The pseudo device ID is:
>
> MFG:HP;MDL:Fax;DES:HP Fax 2;
>
> I suggest to modify it to
>
> MFG:HP;MDL:Fax 2;DES:HP Fax 2;
>
> as otherwise MFG and MDL are identical and so a printer setup tool which
> starts checking already after finding only MFG and MDL can confuse the
> files.
>
> So please change this device ID to the version which I suggested and
> modify the hpfax CUPS backend appropriately, so that it outputs the
> device ID according to the actually connected fax device type. Please
> post also an appropriate patch for HPLIP 2.8.2 here, as we are already
> after feature freeze and therefore we cannot replace the complete HPLIP
> package.
>
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> Fax PPD not installed by default
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