[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#601378: cups: Too small page sizes to Epson Stylus PRO 7800/7880/9800/9880

[Marco]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-3
Severity: normal

CUPS does not provide paper sizes large enough for the use of certain models of
Epson's large format, notably the series Stylus Pro 7800/7880 and 9800/9880. The
bigger formats available are A2, B2 and 16x24 inches.

Any attempt to print on larger user-defined formats larger than any of the
listed by CUPS printing are error-prone. Printed files can be cropped or
stretched up depending on the driver in use.

The 7x00 series can print up to 61 cm wide (24 inches) and the 9x00 series up
to 112 cm (44 inches).

Epson Stylus Pro 7800/7880 can print up to A1, B1 and 24x32 inches format.

Epson Stylus Pro 9800/9880 can print up to A0, B0 and 44x77 inches format.

Does an update on the PPDs is sufficient to solve this problem? Please, let me
know.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.112             add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2         The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client            1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  cups-common            1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.36            Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript            8.71~dfsg2-6      The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.27-2          Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.27-2          Avahi common library
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-6+squeeze1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2               1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libcupscgi1            1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libcupsdriver1         1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libcupsimage2          1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libcupsmime1           1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.4.4-3           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.24-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.5-4         GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.6-1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.8.3+dfsg-2      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35            0.35-7            IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3              1.8.3+dfsg-2      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.23-6          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g               1.1.1-6           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24            library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5            0.12.4-1.1        PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-7.8         OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.5-4           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-16       userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23.1          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules           5.10.1-15         Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils          0.12.4-1.1        PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-9         /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.26            simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont           20090104-7        Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint        <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-filters              <none>     (no description available)
pn  ghostscript-cups              <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                      1.4.4-3    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn  cups-pdf                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-ppdc                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db-engine            <none>     (no description available)
pn  hplip                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  smbclient                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  udev                          163-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none>     (no description available)

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Marco de Freitas