Navigate to https://localhost:631/printers (on that particular machine). Click on the printer name. Verify that it's not paused (under the Maintenance dropdown, if the option Pause Printer is available, it's not paused; if the option Resume Printer is available, it is paused.)
This should work on any modern Linux system, as they all now use CUPS (though with varying interfaces). This is the bundled CUPS interface. If it prompts you for authentication, you'll need to have root's password to enter at the prompt, unless you've set up other users to be admins. This is a little more involved, and it would probably be a good future NLUG presentation. On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 2:02 AM Michael L <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello again NLUG IT therapists, > I have one (computer hater) user who had 3 years of overall good results > with Kubuntu; the HP M203DW network printer seems to have just worked as far > as communicating with Kubuntu which is incidentally on an old 8GB RAM i5 Win8 > HP computer (sans Win8😁). > > I have another user (less of a computer hater) on a Lenovo 16GB RAM i7 Ubuntu > 20.04 system with a supposedly robust Brother L8900cdw printer. The Brother > printer was connected via USB and had its share of freeze ups. I switched > the connection to ethernet network; it seemed to work better and not freeze > up .. until this week. On the settings GUI I only see status "processing" / > jobs in queue while the printer remains unresponsive and I have no idea if it > can be diagnosed from the command line. > > I'm considering switching him from Ubuntu 20.04 to Kubuntu 22.04 and if that > doesn't work, maybe switching to an HP printer. > > If anyone has had printer success with a particular hardware combination or > other "make printing easy" software, I'll be glad to hear of it. > > Thanks > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXbRxKEK5J0RWq2caahxeVQiXzjf7AnzKZYmQ7dgSyQ8AQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcWdkBuHkTrZPHjjMpGnFRavJfTZMSR6BSYgEmL%2BAZVFhg%40mail.gmail.com.
