2009/1/12 David King <[email protected]>: > I am having a problem with printing to my laser printer recently. > Although it is connected, the print jobs are not being sent. The > computer cannot seem to find the printer. > > The printer is a Brother HL-5150D, I am using Ubuntu 8.04.1. It is > connected via USB. The last time this happened, a few days ago, I > rebooted the PC and when I was logged in the page was printed without me > having to reprint it at all. It is like the computer cannot see the > printer, but is sending the print job, which gets stuck somewhere, and > will not go through unless the PC is rebooted. I used to have this > problem a few years ago, when using Windows on a different PC. I would > try to print, nothing happened, until I rebooted and then it printed. > > This problem has not occurred before with Ubuntu or any other Linux > distro and this printer, this is now the second time it has happened. I > tried unplugging the printer USB cable and reinserting, I tried > switching the printer off and on, I tried using the CUPS printer admin > page in Firefox (http://localhost:631/printers) to look at what is > happening, in that page I had to click on Start Printer but still > nothing comes out of the printer. >
I had a similar problem with my HP LJ1018. I had to go into the printer control panel (System > Printing IIRC) and enable the printer. I don't have a handy Ubuntu machine, but I've left a text file on my wife's desktop with the instructions. I'll post them this evening. Cofion, Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
