Printer keeps stopping

[angelb at bugarin.us]

Richard Hall wrote:
> I have several printers set up using cups.    Every now and again a
> couple of the print queues keep stopping.    I clear the jobs and
> restart them with no problem,  then a couple of days later someone will
> complain that printing has stopped working,   I look at the web admin
> interface and they are stopped again.    Can anyone think of a reason
> that would cause this behavior?
>
> Cups version 1.1.21 running on Gentoo.
> Printer is an Oki B8300
>
> Thanks

Look at your client error log file to see if there are any errors. Perhaps you can increase debug level for more detailed entries.

My intial thought on this is a timeout issue. We can be more certain if you get additional information from your log files.