Package: foomatic-db Version: 20100630-1 Severity: normal I posted about this issue on the cups user forum and received the following response: "My guess is that the Foomatic driver isn't sending a PJL end-of-job sequence."
Full story: I have a debian stable/squeeze server with cups 1.4.4 and a hp laserjet 3015 foomatic/postscript connected by usb. After anything is printed via cups, the printer continues to display "printing document" with a blinking status led for about 5 minutes. Cups reports printer status as Idle- "Printer is now online." The driver is POSTSCRI.PPD and I didn't have to do anything special to make cups recognize the printer. If the printer is connected via usb to one of our windows workstations, it resets to Ready immediately after the last page comes out. But with cups - and this applies to things printed over the network, locally, or even a test page from the cups maintenance menu - the light blinks for approximately 5 minutes more. The printer does accept more jobs from cups, but it's an issue because it's also our office copier, and it refuses to copy anything until it's finished "printing document." We can "cancel" the print but I'd prefer to solve this permanently. Let me know if you need any more information. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash foomatic-db depends on no packages. Versions of packages foomatic-db recommends: ii cups 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-client 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii foomatic-db-engine 4.0.4-3 OpenPrinting printer support - pro ii foomatic-filters 4.0.5-6+squeeze1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-9 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii hpijs 3.10.6-2+squeeze1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs ii min12xxw 0.0.9-3 Printer driver for KonicaMinolta P ii pnm2ppa 1.12-16.3 PPM to PPA converter Versions of packages foomatic-db suggests: pn cjet <none> (no description available) ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.6-1 printer drivers for CUPS pn foo2zjs <none> (no description available) ii ghostscript-cups 8.71~dfsg2-9 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF pn hplip <none> (no description available) pn hplip-cups <none> (no description available) pn m2300w <none> (no description available) pn openprinting-ppds <none> (no description available) pn openprinting-ppds-extra <none> (no description available) pn pxljr <none> (no description available) pn splix <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
