CUPS Not printingPrinter not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sat Aug 12 07:30:35 PDT 2006


pug306d wrote:
> "Michael Sweet" <mike at easysw.com> wrote in message 
> news:26331-cups.general at news.easysw.com...
>> CUPS no longer supports USB devices of this form.
>>
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>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
> 
> I have just changed the DeviceURI to DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 and I can 
> now print again :-)
> 
> Is there anyway to create a symlink or something so that DeviceURI 
> usb:/dev/usb/lp0 could be used??

No.

You need to run "lpinfo -v" to get the USB device URI for your
printer - it will be of the form "usb://make/model?serial=foo".

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com




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