On Tue 02 Jul 2013 at 15:57:27 -0400, amber gilchrist wrote: > Hi,
Hi Amber, You didn't give the folks on debian-user much of a chance to make an input, did you? Two posts to two mailing lists within half an hour of each other. :) > After upgrading to Squeeze my printing system has broken. I want to > ask on here because in the archives it looks like several people have > had the same problem with CUPS and different USB connected printers, > but nobody has ever posted a solution. So I'm hoping a printer genius > out there knows what to do! > > I have an HP Laserjet 4M+ connected to my computer on a USB port. On > the printer, the USB cable goes into a USB-to-parallel adaptor on the > printer's parallel port. It worked fine with Wheezy. Now, I can only > print one job. After that I have to unplug the USB cable and plug it > back in, and then I have to to go to the CUPS web interface at > localhost:631 where it shows that the printer is paused. So then I > have to select "resume" and finally then the next job will print. I > have to do this every time I want to print something! Have you got 'Squeeze' and 'Wheezy' interchanged? [Snip] > I have the usblp module blacklisted. I've tried several lpadmin > commands that have been suggested in the archives: > > lpadmin -p HP_LaserJet_4_Plus -o usb-no-reattach-default=true > lpadmin -p HP_LaserJet_4_Plus -o usb-unidir-default=true > > None of these things seem to work. There must be a simple answer > somewhere... You have taken a very reasonable route in an attempt to solve your problem. It is the recommended one. Please read changelog.Debian for, in particular, cups (1.5.3-2.1) and have a look at the 'USB printer does not print . . .' section at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems There is no need to blacklist the usblp module. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130702221849.GC3423@desktop
