On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> I just tried printing to the color laserjet with the same results:
> lpr: Connection refused
>
> I'm not finding any help on the Web for this; the few potentially useful
> hits are years old and most do not have solutions.
>
> When lpr reports the connection is refused where in the path from
> command
> to data being transferred to the printer's memory might the blockage be
> located? Is there a detailed description of what happens when lpr is
> invoked
> with a file name?
>
Can you provide the output of running the lpr command with strace? ("strace
lpr ...")
strace should tell you what the lpr command is trying to connect to,
whether it's a tcp socket or cups.sock, etc.
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