[Bug 54362] Re: Wrong printer model is preselected when adding a HPLIP printer

[Till Kamppeter]

The problem is that often the model information which a printer reports
back on an auto-detection request (device ID) is not in printer database
at it is not known to us. And as it often does not match the exact
writing of the human-readable printer name in the printer list, the
matching sometimes fails.

In printerdrake which I have developed at Mandriva in the last 6 years,
I have implemented a fuzzy matching which succeeds in very many cases
(but is also not 100% perfect). If we replace the unmaintained gnome-
cups-manager by printerdrake, probably many of these issues will go
away.

See feature request:

https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/printerdrake


** Changed in: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Wrong printer model is preselected when adding a HPLIP printer
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54362