CUPS & Canon TS6150: no feed selection

[DavideRossi]

Hi, I have a Canon TS6150 connected via WiFi.
The printer is correctly detected for inclusion and CUPS lists it as a "Canon-TS6100-series".
I can print, detect ink levels and so forth.
What I cannot do is selecting the feed to use for printing. The printer has a rear feed and a paper tray but there no options to select the feed to use when printing in the printing dialog (but also from CUPS' web interface and lpoptions list nothing about feed selection).
Is there a way to add this kind of support?

[AndyMH]

Did you install the drivers from Canon:
https://www.canon.co.uk/support/consume ... 20(64-bit)

[DavideRossi]

No, I did not. I would like to avoid proprietary solutions, if possible. If not, I'll have them a go...

[brian_p]

The command

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driverless

should give a URI to substitute in the next command.

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ipptool -tv URI get-printer-attributes.test > printer.attrs

Post printer.attrs here as an attachment.

[DavideRossi]

Here it is.

[brian_p]

The word to search for in printer.attrs.txt is bin. We see

output-bin-supported (keyword) = face-up

The meaning of this is:

'face-up' The output-bin that is best identified as the "face-up"
bin with respect to the device. The selection of this output
bin does not cause output to be made face-up; rather this
output bin is given this name because a sheet with printing
on one-side arrives in the output bin in the face-up position.

No other output bins are mentioned as attributes provided by Canon's firmware. CUPS and cups-fiters cannot supply you with options that are not present in the firmware.

I took a look at the PPD provided by the proprietary Canon drivers. I do not see any way of choosing an output bin, but it was only a quick look, so you would have to test by installing the drivers.

[brian_p]

Forget my previous post. I got confused . I will try to reassess the situation when I have sorted myself out.

[brian_p]

Forget my previous post. I got confused . I will try to reassess the situation when I have sorted myself out.

I have now sorted out my mixing up of inputs and outputs, so, hopefully, what I now say is useful .

From printer.attrs.txt:

printer-input-tray (1setOf octetString) = type=other;mediafeed=-2;mediaxfeed=-2;maxcapacity=-2;level=-2;status=5;name=auto;, type=sheetFeedAutoRemovableTray;mediafeed=-2;mediaxfeed=-2;maxcapacity=-2;level=-2;status=5;name=main; ,type=sheetFeedAutoNonRemovableTray;mediafeed=-2;mediaxfeed=-2;maxcapacity=-2;level=-2;status=5;name=rear;

Look at name=. We have auto (the printer makes an automatic choice), main and rear. The last two are the input feeders. You will be using cups-filters to generate a PPD with this info in it and that lpoptions would show. This does not appear to be happening. It could be a bug in cups-filters.

Let's use CUPS to generate the PPD:

Execute

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driverless

This gives you a URI to substitute in this command:

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lpadmin -p testq -v URI -E -m everywhere

Is there any tray information in

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lpoptions -p testq -l

[DavideRossi]

Nope, no tray info:

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PageSize/Media Size: A5 *A4 B5 Letter Legal Postcard Env10 EnvDL EnvYou4 EnvYou6 EnvChou3 EnvChou4 3.5x5 4x6 5x7 8x10 55x91mm 5x5
ColorModel/Color Mode: *RGB Gray
Duplex/2-Sided Printing: *None DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble
cupsPrintQuality/Print Quality: *Normal High

[brian_p]

About the best I can do is suggest submitting an issue at

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues

referencing this thread and providing the printer's attributes.

[DavideRossi]

Done. Thx for the help Brian.

[DavideRossi]

Update: the good folks @ CUPs say it's a bug and it looks like it's fixed in 2.3.x.
I have no intention to move from Mint 19.3 until my new XPS 13 arrives, so it will take a little before I can confirm.

[AndyMH]

No, I did not. I would like to avoid proprietary solutions, if possible. If not, I'll have them a go...

Much as you don't want to, installing the drivers from canon might fix the problem. After all you are using a proprietary printer

[brian_p]

No, I did not. I would like to avoid proprietary solutions, if possible. If not, I'll have them a go...

Much as you don't want to, installing the drivers from canon might fix the problem.

Might? As said earlier, the PPD provided by Canon does not provide a way to change InputSlot (the standard PPD option).

After all you are using a proprietary printer

Given that a PPD generated by CUPS on Mint 19 does not give access to the input trays, there is no difference in the outcome with free software. However, is a solution more likely to come from Canon or from CUPS ?

[brian_p]

Update: the good folks @ CUPs say it's a bug and it looks like it's fixed in 2.3.x.
I have no intention to move from Mint 19.3 until my new XPS 13 arrives, so it will take a little before I can confirm.

JFTR:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/351
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/136