Some time ago i was experimenting with my HP Photosmart D5360 and found a way to make him print CD-labels. That was perfect! Yesterday i wanted to print again onto paper. Wan't work anymore, because i don't find the place again, where i had changed it from paper to CD/DVD. While updating from time to time (kde 4.4.2 now) i didn't notice, that in the printer dialog (of all the kde programs) there is this option no more. I only get a readonly information that media type is CD/DVD now. ****!

Is there an advice somewhere out there?

What i tried already:

• changed media type successfully with cups from "printer default" to "lower try"
  -> kde printer dialog wan't reflect this change
• YaST Control center -> Hardware -> Printer:
  -> Changing mediatype will work there, but again no impact on kde.
• YaST and cups however reflect the changes of each other.

<sigh>, at moment i have returned to good old lp command, because this guy takes the settings of cups/YaST.

What else to tell?

Not-KDE applications like OpenOffice or gimp allow it already to change this param, because they use their own printer dialogs.

Env: openSUSE 11.1, KDE 4.4.2

Have you tried testing with a new user?

Try the "Advanced" tab in the print-dialog. Under the "General" heading you should see a "Media source" entry. Double-click in the "Value" column and you should get a drop-down menu you can change from say "CD Tray" to "Lower tray".

Works for me anyway, although as far as KDE4 apps go I've only tried it in Karbon14 and Krita using Turboprint as the printer-driver.