Re: CUPS in stretch does NOT WORK - Ricoh printer SP112 SP112-su
On Tue 31 Jan 2017 at 23:06:53 +0100, roba@openmailbox.org wrote:
> Well I sure haven't changed anything other than upgrade packages. Now if
> some other package interferes with cupsd I don't know. I know I spent some
> days fighting :631 4-5 months ago to get it (the printer) to work. Cups
> worked fine then. I have not tried any other printer since.
>
> Obviously there seem to be other people elsewhere that refer to this
> problem. Losing contact with cups after a stretch upgrade. The only
> solution I found I listed but either I don't understand the commands or it
> is not working for me.
>
> I even created a new user, run firefox stock 1st time no plugins ... and
> nothing. Unreachable it says. No instructions what so ever. Even sudo
> firefox didn't reach. NADA!
>
> I think it is ridiculous after so many months to be holding a Win7 partition
> to be able to print stuff and it is not the printer problem anymore as a
> previous generic pc of similar specs printed just fine with Jessie. This
> one is a stock DELL with no sign of hardware incompatibility. Again, I am
> on LXDE Stretch, AMD64, and it is a USB printer, no network stuff. The
> printer settings gui identified the correct printer and model. No way to
> drive it.
Please post the output of
/usr/sbin/lpinfo -l -v
in your next mail here.
--
Brian.
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