All my printers are networked via ethernet. I have an ancient desktop Laserjet 4 Plus whose IP address is 192.168.0.15. I can ping it fine. But I can't seem to send a print job to it.
First, I migrated all my printer setups from my old Ubuntu hard disk. I did this by copying /etc/init.d/cups/cups.conf and the entire contents of the ppd folder. I also restarted the computer. The printers appear in the Printer configuration window. I can send a test page to it from any of the three drivers that I have installed, and the test page appears in the print queue. However, in the print queue it is listed as pending. The printer is enabled, accepting jobs. I can't find anything wrong in the GUI for the driver properties. However, looking at top the cupsd service is not running. I thought you started and stopped CUPS with /etc/init.d/cups/ ./cups stop/start But that does not work, and there doesn't seem to be any executable files in the folder anyway. I know in top when it is running it is listed as cupsd, but that doesn't work either. I have also restarted the computer, but the cupsd service is still not running. I think it is supposed to start automatically whenever an app sends a print job to a printer, but I'm not sure about that. I really need to get my printers working ASAP. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
