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Re: How to install a downloaded printer driver?



On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:03:09PM -0800, lmyho wrote:
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> Hi Chris, thank you for the instruction!  I did it, the pkg was installed, but got
> further problem: the printer started to print immediately for nothing and I can't
> stop it - only to turn its power off.  Then I tried to print something really - the
> printer started, but still keep printing nothing and not stop!!  what is happening
> and what's wrong here??  
> 
> Could you help me further about it?  THANK YOU!!!
 <snip> 
> > > by the way, it's a Brother printer.  

Are you using lpr or cups?  I think you can find out by checking if
/etc/init.d/cupsys exists, if it does you have cups installed.
I don't know about lpr.  If you are using cups, try issuing an 
'/etc/init.d/cupsys stop' then turn the printer on.  If that works (doesn't
try and print anything), try to delete any jobs (point your browser at 
localhost:631) and issue '/etc/init.d/cupsys start' and see if it works 
correctly.  If you have no jobs queued, I'm not sure where to go.  

HTH, good luck,
-- 
Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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