> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:55:04PM +0100, Gilles wrote: > > I had the same problem, also with an Epson printer. Unfortunately, > > I can't help, as I never undertood what was the problem; it just > > happened when the printer was switched off. Then CUPS couldn't > > find it anymore, even when it was re-regitered as a USB device... > > Did you try restarting CUPS? Even then sometimes it didn't work > > for me until I "reinstalled" the printer with the CUPS web interface. > > If you boot with the printer off, cups won't find it since the usb > device is not there. This leaves the printer set to disabled but still > queueing jobs. The enable command allows you to start the queue again. > > I too have had to restart cupsys in the past when the printer was off at > boot. > > It seems you really want the printer on when cups starts so that it can > find out which usb device it is. Not sure there is any better solution > than perhaps making udev/hotplug restart cups whenever a printer appears > or disappears from the usb ports.
I have tried: 1) # /etc/init.d/cupsys restart not working 2) # /etc/init.d/udev restart not working 3) again # /etc/init.d/cupsys restart not working ------------------- I use my printer rarely, and I don't need to keep it in a lan, and so I would like to know if there is an alternative to cups, more "plug'n'play" for single pc and single printer... Thanks, Giulio
