Comment 48 for bug 98520

Johnny Levai, thank you very much for your report.

For point 7 note that the HP Toolbox considers your settings as personal settings and saves them in ~/.cups/lpoptions (please check and report here whether they really appear there, and when: directly when setting them? When switching to another tab in the Toolbox? When closing the Toolbox?). It does not save them for system-wide use in /etc/cups/ppd/<your printer>.ppd. HP Toolbox is considered a user tool, not an admin tool.

To test printing with the changed options, run the apps from the same user account as you are running HP Toolbox from.

If the options are correctly set in your ~/.cups/lpoptions file but applications do not obey them, file a bug against the applications, as they do not use the CUPS API correctly then. Perhaps some applications save printer options also per-document and not per-user (you can see this if you save your document, the "Save" function gets grayed out then, you change printing options and print and after that the "Save" button does not stay grayed out).

The cut-off line in the toolbox is a purely cosmetic problem. Nothing is lost, there is no more line. So all functionality of the Toolbox is conserved. The bug can be in HPLIP or Python Qt and the HP developers are aware of it.

Don, if you have a patch to fix this problem, I am very grateful if you post it here.

None of these two problems are regressions from HPLIP 1.7.1.