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martinc2

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Registered: 2011-09-23

Posts: 60

[SOLVED] google-chrome-stable not printing (in plasma5)

Hi,

for the last couple of versions of chrome, I can't get printing to work.  Printers appear in the preview dialogue as usual; printing to them results in silent failure.  Nothing relevant-seeming in CUPS logs.  Still happens with chrome extensions disabled.  Print to PDF works fine; print using system dialogue opens a strange, half-empty, dialogue which only has "print to file" as an option -- no mention of printers.  This is for two machines, both fully updated 64-bit plasma 5.

Given that it's happening on both of my machines, I'm assuming that others may be seeing the same thing.  Any ideas where to look for a solution?  Thanks in advance

Last edited by martinc2 (2017-06-28 19:43:35)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,740

Re: [SOLVED] google-chrome-stable not printing (in plasma5)

Since Chrome recently moved to a GTK3 base, I suppose https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Installation the gtk3 part will apply here as well.

hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED] google-chrome-stable not printing (in plasma5)

Hey martinc2,

try installing gtk3-print-backends

Greets,

Torben

// Welp… That was way too slow…

Last edited by hoerbert (2017-06-28 16:19:13)

martinc2

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Registered: 2011-09-23

Posts: 60

Re: [SOLVED] google-chrome-stable not printing (in plasma5)

Many thanks hoerbert and V1del.  Installing gtk3-print-backends solves the problem.