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#1 2014-01-06 21:36:55

donuon
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[SOLVED] Cups says success but some files are not actually printing

I have a Samsung ML-2510 Series printer which can print text perfectly fine, doesn't matter if it is a PDF, ODT, TXT, etc. However, larger files with images such as PDF and PPT files will not print. There are no errors in the error log. In fact the print job log shows as complete but nothing actually printed. Under jobs it lists No Jobs, but under printers the status says Idle - "Sending data to printer." In the access log it says that Create-Job and Send-Document were both successful but again nothing actually printed.

I'm stumped, as similar posts I found were related to driver errors that I don't seem to be having.

Last edited by donuon (2014-01-06 23:38:11)

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#2 2014-01-06 21:40:28

drcouzelis
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Re: [SOLVED] Cups says success but some files are not actually printing

Hi! I have the exact same printer! It can be flakey, but I did make a change to my system configuration to get it to work 100% of the time.

...but I'm not home right now. So when I get home (and if your question isn't solved yet wink) then I'll let you know what I did. smile

How is it connected to your computer?

EDIT: More info, I use USB, and I should be able to respond in less than an hour.

Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-01-06 21:45:58)

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#3 2014-01-06 21:41:56

donuon
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Re: [SOLVED] Cups says success but some files are not actually printing

That would be great! I just plug it in via USB.

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#4 2014-01-06 23:05:21

drcouzelis
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Re: [SOLVED] Cups says success but some files are not actually printing

Here it is. Create a file "/etc/modprobe.d/usblp.conf" and put this in it:

# The "usblp" module causes a bug with the printer
blacklist usblp

Then reboot. See if that does the trick. smile

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#5 2014-01-06 23:38:44

donuon
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Re: [SOLVED] Cups says success but some files are not actually printing

You sir are a gentleman, thank you!

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#6 2014-01-07 00:10:42

drcouzelis
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Re: [SOLVED] Cups says success but some files are not actually printing

You're welcome! For reference, I learned about that trick way back when from this section in the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CU … ting_usblp

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