386341 - Add a "- Thunderbird" suffix to the print job title, to allow detection by print auditing tools

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 356284

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Krzys]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

When printing an email, the title of the print job (visible in the print queue and sent to the printer) is the Subject of the email, but does not contain a "- Mozilla Thunderbird" suffix. 

Some print management applications rely on the job title to detect the type (web page, picture, spreadsheet, email) in order to, for example, block the printing of color emails (too costly).

Without a specific keyword in the title, it is impossible to detect the type of printed emails. Only replies ("Re: xxxx") and forwards ("[Fwd: xxxx]") can be detected, but not the first email in a conversation.

In the common use case, adding a suffix to the title will be invisible to the end user.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pause the printer queue in Windows
2. Print an email with subject "Hello World"
3. Check the print job title in the queue
Actual Results:  
The print job title is "Hello World"

Expected Results:  
It would be usefull to have "Hello World - Mozilla Thunderbird" or any variation with a Thunderbird specific keyword.

On most printer drivers, the Job Title is the only information that persists in the spool file sent to the printer (except some HP drivers). It is not possible to get the name of the application or process that prints.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 356284?

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think so.