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#1 2008-05-15 20:17:18
- Raccoon1400
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CUPS: USB Printer has to be on at boot to print[SOLVED]
If I want to print, and the printer was not on during boot, it will not print. If I reboot, when gnome starts, the printer gets the job and prints.
This was working fine a while ago. This problem was noticed about a week ago. I run pacman -Syu daily.
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#2 2008-05-16 02:34:19
- ScriptDevil
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Re: CUPS: USB Printer has to be on at boot to print[SOLVED]
At least is the printer visible when you plug it in? I mean, can you see it in gnome-printer-manager or something like that. I dont use gnome, so I do not know the exact name.
If it is a hp printer, is it available in hp-toolbox when it is switched on?
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#3 2008-05-16 11:34:30
- Raccoon1400
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Re: CUPS: USB Printer has to be on at boot to print[SOLVED]
At least is the printer visible when you plug it in? I mean, can you see it in gnome-printer-manager or something like that. I dont use gnome, so I do not know the exact name.
If it is a hp printer, is it available in hp-toolbox when it is switched on?
All I have in the GUI to configure printers is the CUPS web interface.
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#4 2008-05-16 13:14:21
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Re: CUPS: USB Printer has to be on at boot to print[SOLVED]
Atleast find out if dmesg spits out something related to the printer
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#5 2008-05-17 11:32:45
- orasis
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Re: CUPS: USB Printer has to be on at boot to print[SOLVED]
The same story over here. Unless I boot the machine with the printer on (I can turn it on and off after I am finished booting up) I will not be able to print, or see the printer, nothing.
I am using an HP brand printer and it has always been this way for me and I run -Syu every second day. My current Arch Linux install has been on this machine for about 3-4 Months and it has always been like that with my printer.
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#6 2008-05-17 11:46:09
- luca
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Re: CUPS: USB Printer has to be on at boot to print[SOLVED]
See this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 51#p361451
I had the same problem
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#7 2008-05-17 15:06:59
- Raccoon1400
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Re: CUPS: USB Printer has to be on at boot to print[SOLVED]
Thanks! That worked for me too.
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