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FS#54748 - [chromium] printing does not work, printer is visible but no job was send to the printer

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Sunday, 09 July 2017, 20:03 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 22 July 2017, 14:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Hello,
I have problems with chromium and printing. When I print over cups directly via `lpr` commandline it works, but the print-dialog in chromium does not work anymore since the last upgrade.
The printer is visible, but when I click on 'print' there is no job in the queue of cups.

Does this have something todo with the new 'native printer support' in chromium 59?
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Saturday, 22 July 2017, 14:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Sunday, 09 July 2017, 20:11 GMT
seems like I am not the only one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/6lmmk1/printing_from_browser_stopped_working_linux/

except that I can see the printer at least.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 09 July 2017, 20:27 GMT
Not seeing the printers is a totally different issue, caused by people not paying attention to optional deps.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 10 July 2017, 06:43 GMT
The gtk3-print-backends optional dependency is easy to miss IMO; I remember having to troubleshoot the "no printers listed" issue myself (in Evince). :-)

Not sure about not being able to print using Chromium's built-in print dialog. I printed a document on June 29th with no issues and also tested now that it's able to submit a print job (didn't turn on the printer to actually print it though).

Check if the following works:

1) Printing from Chromium using the system dialog (Ctrl+Shift+P)
2) Printing from other GTK3 applications
3) If everything fails, visit http://localhost:631/ and confirm that no print job was submitted

Assuming the issue is reproducible in Chrome as well, you could try reporting it upstream at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list (without further logs and repro steps, they might just say "works for me" though)

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