I have several laser printers on my home ethernet, and I can print to all of them except the one I need for the job at hand.
In the following "printer" means the CUPS setup on my computer. If I refer to the printer itself I call it the "print device." Nothing has changed in the printer properties window for this printer, and I can ping it from the command line (192.168.0.135). But when I try to print to it I get an error message that it is not connected. The Xubuntu 13.10 GUI says under Printer State: "Processing - The printer is in use." The printer's control panel says it is ready to print. I have stopped and restarted CUPS, but I still can't get the computer to recognize that the printer is ready to accept a job. Also, the GUI normally has a Print Test Page button, and it appears on all my other printers, but it does not appear for this printer. When I try to print from any application now, next to this printer is the message "the printer is in use." I have duplicated the printer, and the new printer tries to print a test page once, then immediately says the printer is in use. The test page never gets to the printer. I also recreated the printer from scratch, and got the same results. My current favorite printer uses the PPD file for this printer (Phaser 7400DN), but I have other printers configured for it using the Xerox driver. If I try to print to this printer from any of these other printers I get the same results - first it says it is accepting jobs, then as soon as I send it a job it goes to "the printer is in use" and the print job never gets to the printer. >From the command line lpstat -a gives me: Xerox-Phaser-7400DN-PPD3 accepting requests since Mon 20 Jan 2014 06:33:09 PM PST How can it be that I can ping the printer, but CUPS gets stuck thinking that the printer is in use? I have spent two hours so far googling, with no solution in sight. I need some brilliant suggestions. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
