Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> But it will give you something to do for the
> rest of the afternoon!

I wrote this to automatize it:

# try all PPDs on the system:
#
#     $ test-ppd **/*.ppd
#
# and, in another pane:
#
#     $ watch -t -n 0.1 lpstat -p
test-ppd () {
    local -a ppds
    ppds=($@)

    local test_file=~/TEST-TEXT-FILE
    local printer=laser

    for p in $ppds; do
        sudo lpadmin -p $printer -E -P $p
        doprint $test_file
        sleep 7
    done
} # [1]

How does that differ from what you describe?
Is the above enough to find out?

[1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/.zsh/printers

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