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linas

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Registered: 2010-03-06

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Printing blank pages

I have been unable to print for a month. After a large update my Epson "prints" all pages blank.
I tried downgrading cups and libcups, udev, booting with an early kernel... and the problem didn't go away.

Does anyone have a tip on what could be breaking it?

lagagnon

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Re: Printing blank pages

First of all check all the CUPS logs in /var/log/cups and report back with anything that looks strange or like an error...

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linas

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Re: Printing blank pages

There's no error in cups logs. In fact, cups thinks it has been printed successfully.
It's just that it hasn't

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Re: Printing blank pages

Did you check whether you still have ink? Does it work in Windows, if you are dualbooting?

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linas

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Re: Printing blank pages

I'm not dualbooting, so I can't test in Windows.

I also considered that from the effects but mtink tells me that I have ink (10%), and the need-ink led isn't blinking. Moreover, the problem appeared after a large update which included cups. What drives me nuts is figuring out which piece is breaking it.

Is there a way to get into the different steps taken by cups? Eg. to check the file output by ghostscript.

linas

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Re: Printing blank pages

Turns out it wasn't a software problem after all. After cleaning heads several times ( escputil -r /dev/usblp0 -c ) it works again.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by linas (2010-08-09 14:16:48)