On 28 Feb 2020, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:28:52AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have a networked Brother-HL5350DN printer which has worked fine > > with CUPS for over a year. Two days ago it suddenly refused to > > print on my desktop running -current I reconfigured the printer > > several times without effect. > > > > I then set up CUPS on a laptop running -release. It also failed. In > > both cases the printer appears on screen and I can queue jobs for > > printing as normal but they don't print. The printer itself is > > working normally from my wife's computer. I cam ping the printer > > without difficulty. > > > > I turned on debug and found this: > > [Job 30] Unable to locate printer \"BRN001BA92DB44A\" > > > > I'm mystified. Whenever I've set up the printer in CUPS previously > > it has always worked. The only clue I found was on Arch Linux where > > they talk about needing to set up avahi jn such cases, but I don't > > know if that is relevant here. > > > > Any ideas gratefully received. > > Can you share your configuration? > If it's a network printer, it could be that cups is trying to connect to your > printer using avahi which doesn't work on OpenBSD. You must make sure you > configure your printer using hostname or IP.
I don't have any avahi daemon running. I have a static address for the printer. Here is my latest config file: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v2.3.1 # Written by cupsd on 2020-03-01 10:32 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING NextPrinterId 2 <DefaultPrinter Brother_HL-5350DN_series> PrinterId 1 UUID urn:uuid:a7dada8a-a537-3188-7c98-35ec7bf5bccf Info Brother_HL-5350DN_series Location MakeModel Brother HL-5350DN Foomatic/Postscript DeviceURI socket://192.168.1.83 State Idle StateTime 1583058733 ConfigTime 1583058632 Type 8433684 Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer Attribute marker-colors \#000000,#000000,#000000 Attribute marker-levels -1,-1,54 Attribute marker-names Black Toner Cartridge,Black Toner Cartridge,Drum Unit Attribute marker-types toner,toner,opc Attribute marker-change-time 1583058733 </DefaultPrinter> -- Anthony Campbell https://www.acampbell.uk
