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Kale Good

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Registered: 2014-08-17

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Printer fails, scanner works

Hello,
I had my USB-connected Brother HL-2280dw printer/scanner fully functional using AUR package brother-hl2280dw for the printing aspect. After some -Syu (I assume; I don't print much), the printing function stopped working. Scanning still works. I was getting an "Unable to find printer" error. I thought that deleting and reinstalling the may work; I deleted the printer and now CUPS can't find it. I've also reinstalled cups and libcups.

-I can see it under lsusb and dmesg.
-I've reinstalling the hl-2280dw, installed hl-2270dw and hplip with no change.
-I have a2ps installed.
-Scanning still works.
-printer works under Ubuntu.

As far as I can understand, if the scanner works, and the connection is listed under lsusb and dmesg, CUPS should be able to see it. I'm not sure what the next trouble-shooting step is.

Thanks,
Kale

tuxador

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From: algeria

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Re: Printer fails, scanner works

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups#CUPS_daemon

you have to stop cupsd.seervice via systemd (like on the wiki) and then enable org.cups.cupsd.service .

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jasonwryan

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Re: Printer fails, scanner works

You really should read pacman's output. Go back and read your log: it tells you exactly what you need to do...

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Kale Good

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Registered: 2014-08-17

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Re: Printer fails, scanner works

Did this work for the OP? I have the same problem, however, I grepped my pacman log file for cups and nothing came up. I think this might be because I've been ignoring the problem for so long that the references to a solution are no longer in the cups file. Newbie errors...

I tried tuxador's solution (assuming he meant cupsd.service) with no luck.

firekage

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From: Eastern Europe, Poland

Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 617

Re: Printer fails, scanner works

Did this work for the OP? I have the same problem, however, I grepped my pacman log file for cups and nothing came up. I think this might be because I've been ignoring the problem for so long that the references to a solution are no longer in the cups file. Newbie errors...

I tried tuxador's solution (assuming he meant cupsd.service) with no luck.

Cups service is not longer named cupsd.service but org.cups.cupsd.service.

[firekage@arch_desktop ~]$ systemctl status org.cups.cupsd.service
● org.cups.cupsd.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/org.cups.cupsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since śro 2015-03-25 10:31:25 CET; 7h ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
 Main PID: 396 (cupsd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/org.cups.cupsd.service
           └─396 /usr/bin/cupsd -l
[firekage@arch_desktop ~]$ 

Kale Good

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Registered: 2014-08-17

Posts: 46

Re: Printer fails, scanner works

Thanks, firekage. I ran the same command and got the same thing (with a variant at Main PID and two lines following that seem ordinary). I'm guessing this means I need to search elsewhere for my solution?

kale@Uberziet Sat Mar 28 09:58:07pm $ ~/ systemctl status org.cups.cupsd.service
● org.cups.cupsd.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/org.cups.cupsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2015-03-28 15:03:38 EDT; 6h ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
 Main PID: 241 (cupsd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/org.cups.cupsd.service
           └─241 /usr/bin/cupsd -l

Mar 28 15:03:38 Uberziet systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler...
Mar 28 15:03:38 Uberziet systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler.

Kale Good

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Registered: 2014-08-17

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Re: Printer fails, scanner works

Oh god. I just realized that I'm the OP.

So, to answer my own question, no, that didn't work for me.