On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:27:10AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 04:50:00PM +0100, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:25:31 +0000 > > Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have an OKI MC342 printer which I have installed in the normal way, > > > it appears as expected in CUPS and works OK. > > > > > > However if I select Print in any program I see *two* printers, one is > > > the one I have installed and the other seems to be a sort of phantom > > > printer. It looks similar to the MC342 I have installed but has > > > limited options and doesn't actually work. If you print to it > > > absolutely nothing happens. > > > > > > On a system where I hadn't installed the printer the phantom version > > > of the MC342 appears too, no printers in CUPS, one printer available > > > in programs. Similarly printing to this printer does nothing at all. > > > > No printers in CUPS where? The web ui? > > > It's offered as a printer in the menu File->Print in Firefox. > > > > > Where is this phantom printer coming from and how can I get rid of > > > it? > > > > What's the output of 'lpstat -v'? > > > ris$ lpstat -v > device for MC342: dnssd://OKI-MC342-AE529C._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/ > > > What I get offered in the Firefox Print option is two printers:- > > MC342 > OKI-MC342-AE529C > > The second one is the one that doesn't actually work. > > In AbiWord I get offered:- > > MC342 > print >
... and I've found what produces it, thought it's still a bug. For some reason the presence of the printer on the LAN is what creates these 'phantom' printers. If I power the printer down both the OKI-MC342-AE529C in Firefox and the 'print' in AbiWord disappear. So their print option seems to somehow 'see' the network printer and thinks it can be used. As I said early on LibreOffice does things right and doesn't see this phantom printer. -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
