On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:40:48 +1000, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I have finally broken down and installed CUPS, which seems to work pretty well for > two printers, an HP PSC2175 and a Brother HL1440. However, I have run into a few > rough spots. Besides driver issues for the HP, I have a problem that has happened > often enough to start to bug me. > > As mentioned in the subject line, it has happened a few times that at some point, > even when the printer has been working, some small change in the parameters or some > unknown factor will cause the printer to just stop accepting jobs, or else the > system to stop passing them to the printer. > > On one instance, using Sane to scan from the HP PSC2175 and print to the HL1440, the > scans went perfectly and printed ok on the Laser printer (giving me a copy function > at a much cheaper cost). Then for one scan I decided to specify in the Sane dialog > for two copies to be printed. It worked fine. Then the next time around, I > specified one copy, but nothing happened. I repeated the command several times. > Other print jobs could not print either. > > After rebooting, the printer cranked out pending jobs. >
You can try with one of the Cups queue manager like gtklpq (is included in the gtklp package) to restart the print jobs. > In another instance, today, jobs sent to the HP printer didn't print. I rebooted, > and the copies printed ok. > > I tried /etc/init.d/cupsys restart, but this didn't work. > > I had similar problems with lpd/lpr for perhaps years, which I have always had to > solve with the /etc/init.d/lpd stop/start trickery. > > I have looked at the CUPS docs, but haven't figured this out. Is this problem > familiar to anyone? > I suppose it's a comunication problem with your printer, are you using a USB or a parallel cable? Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
