Re: Trouble with USB printer
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 08:54 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a USB printer, HP laserjet 1600. I'm using lenny, with cups
> and the hpijs driver installed. The printer used to work, although it
> would sometimes stop due to an error. Restarting the printer usually
> got it working again. Recently, probably after an upgrade, it stopped
> working altogether. The printer is still detected, and if I print to
> it, the job is listed in kjobviewer, and shows up if I connect to the
> cups server (localhost:631), but the printer does not do anything, and
> the menu panel states "Ready". I can still print to a remote printer,
> so I suspect it is a problem with the USB system, not cups itself.
> Does anyone have a clue as to what could be wrong, or how I would go
> about debugging this?
>
> -Chris
I encountered the same problem recently albeit with a parallel printer.
Does the printer work? Can it print test pages (with a button on the
printer)?
Can you attach your CUPS log? I suspect this is a bug that needs to be
fixed.
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Regards,
Aniruddha
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