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#1 2009-10-27 20:57:33
- jerik
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Printer stopped working
Hi, my printer stopped working all of a sudden, that is due to some bug, not the printer it self. Anyone who knows where to start look for whats wrong? Cups detect it when I delete and add it. Document appears in the print queue. But no action.
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#2 2009-10-27 21:27:16
- evr
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Re: Printer stopped working
what kind of printer is it?
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#3 2009-10-27 21:30:00
- jerik
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Re: Printer stopped working
HP F300, I'm sorry but maby I did'nt check the news good enoug. Let me try to fiddel a bit, and I come back if it doesn't work.
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#4 2009-10-28 04:29:00
- rhomp2002
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Re: Printer stopped working
Having the same problem with a Samsung ML2851NL laser printer. I signed onto Ubuntu and it still works there as it also does on Pardus. Just on Arch am I having the problem.
I reinstalled CUPS and that did nothing to solve it. I have everything up to date with the pacman and the printer was working just fine up until about a week ago. For now I just send what I want to print to the other distro and print them there while I try to find out what changed that would cause this.
Went into CUPS and realized that CUPS is now looking for me to have a print server network setup and it does not find any printer. I don't have any print server network setup. This is a stand alone printer. Very strange.:(
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#5 2009-10-28 06:47:48
- grey
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Re: Printer stopped working
Did you try the suggestion in the wiki?
Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance.
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#6 2009-10-28 16:47:13
- rhomp2002
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Re: Printer stopped working
Went to the Wiki and re-installed it completely. Had to guess as to what the right driver was since I can't seem to find the exact one. Works now. Hope it keeps on working.
What I wonder is what happened that it stopped in the first place. Was there a new version of CUPS added that messed it up?
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#7 2009-10-28 18:45:40
- jerik
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Re: Printer stopped working
After much fiddling, it works. Not sure what made it, though I'm happy!
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