Wine finds bogus printer and cant add correct printer

[yaturner]

Wine insists that the only printer that I have on my system is an HP PSC 2175, this is an old printer that I long ago stopped using. My current printer is an HP 7310 using CUPS but I can not convince wine to use it. I have tried deleting the registry keys for the 2175 ( it is there in regedit ) but they just keep coming back the next time I run regedit. I have tried deleting the entries from win.ini but they come back also. I have deleted .wine and reinstalled. I have checked the printers using System Settings->printers and the only printer I have is the 7310. How do I convince wine that I do not have an HP 2175? Where does it get its printer list from? etc. If I run notepad.exe or photoshop (which works great under wine) the only printer that is available is the 2175.

Details

Kubuntu 8.0.2 ( 2.6.24-20-generic )
wine 1.1.2
dual boot system with Windows XP and Kubuntu

[dimesio]

I have checked the printers using System Settings->printers and the only printer I have is the 7310.

Have you checked CUPS directly to see what printers are installed? Go to http://localhost:631/printers/ and see if the old printer is still listed in CUPS.

[yaturner]

thank you for your suggestion, but it list 5 printers

Officejet_7300 (Default Printer)
Officejet_7300_fax
Officejet_7300_series
Officejet_7300_series_fax
PDF

the 1st 4 all point to the URI

hpfax:/usb/Officejet_7300_series?serial=MY49GG84VC0407

the last one points to:

cups-pdf:/

I printed a test page and printers 1 and 3 both print on the HP printer correctly


not sure where to look next, I am really impressed by wine and like to get this fully functional.

[dimesio]

Are you using the Hardy packages?

Shortly after 1.1.2 came out, someone made this comment in another thread:

BTW, if you're on 64 bit ubuntu,, better stay on 1.1.1 OR fiddle a bit with build... changes on cups made printers disappears, but JUST for ubuntu 64 bit.
It seems it's solved on latest git.

I don't know any more about it than that (I use openSUSE). It may have nothing to do with your problem, but it might be worth downgrading to 1.1.1 just to check.

[yaturner]

well I am on an Amd64, so downgrade I go, I'll post my results here, thanks for the tip

maybe I'm not hip, but was that a typo or is there a latest 'git'?

[yaturner]

[UPDATE]

going back to 1.1.1 had a side effect of forcing me to remove my current .wine directory, so my problem was solved by going back to version 1.1.1 and/or creating a new .wine directory

either way the printer reference is now correct