Re: Sometimes nothing happens when printing to network printers
Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> I've been having trouble printing to network printers from KDE and Gnome
> applications lately, using CUPS or LP. No errors show up, and as far as the
> applications are concerned, the documents printed. But the documents are
> never actually sent to the printers.
>
> There's no problem with the printers. They're mostly HP LaserJets. I've
> checked with the network admins and the other users in the building. They've
> had no such problems.
>
> Killing cupds and restarting it sometimes works. Rebooting my machine
> always works. But that's a Windows-style kluge--I'd like to actually fix
> the problem.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong, and how to fix it?
I had a very similar problem (running Debian Sarge with CUPS) not too
long ago. I was able to print to a network printer as root but not as
my normal user. But I could still print test pages from the CUPS HTTP
interface on localhost:631.
I eventually ran lpr under strace and found out that CUPS was looking at
a dot file in my home directory, which apparently had incorrect settings
or bad syntax or something. Deleting the file fixed the problem. If I
remember correctly it was called ".lpoptions". Maybe this will help you?
Good luck,
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