printout mode always starts with "Normal (Color cartrigde)" only, skipping black cartridge completely

Bug #120861 reported by Felipe Figueiredo
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evince (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

This doesn't happen to acroread or kpdf. Other gtk apps that use gnome print system (openoffice and firefox) also don't suffer, so I am reporting on evince only.

Everytime I start evince, the "Advanced" tab in Print option in General menu is reconfigured so that it only uses the color cartridge. Even if I change "Printout Mode" and/or "Resolution, Quality, Ink Type and Media Type" to use the black cartridge, evince seems to ignore this and still uses only the color cartridge. This is especially bad for me since I currently only have a black cartridge, so paper comes out completely white, making evince useless for printing PDFs.

This happens on two Feisty computers (desktop and laptop) I have here.

Not sure if it's relevant, but the printer is a HP OfficeJet 4255, using "hpijs (recommended) - HPLIP 1.7.3" OfficeJet 4200 driver.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 17 12:57:03 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 0.8.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evince
ProcCwd: /home/philsf
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:pt_PT
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux peralta 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Felipe Figueiredo (philsf) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. That should be fixed with the gutsy version, feel free to reopen if you still get the bug using it though

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Released
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Felipe Figueiredo (philsf) wrote : Re: [Bug 120861] Re: printout mode always starts with "Normal (Color cartrigde)" only, skipping black cartrigde completely

Sebastien,

If there is a fix, can I get/apply the fix or workaround still in feisty?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: printout mode always starts with "Normal (Color cartrigde)" only, skipping black cartrigde completely

there is no backport planned for that at the moment

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Felipe Figueiredo (philsf) wrote :

Just to add that after purging and recreating all printer configurations, I am now able to print in b&w with evince, provided everytime I open it, I change from 'Normal Color', to 'Grayscale'.

Still annoying, but at least it works.

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