My print jobs keep aborting - help me please!

Steven Maddox s.maddox at cyorxamp.info
Wed Mar 29 02:05:53 PST 2006


I have tried other things since posting this...

Still does not work but for other reasons

Please see...

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=151997


"Steven Maddox" <s.maddox at cyorxamp.info> wrote in message 
news:3414-cups.bugs at news.easysw.com...
> Lo,
>
> I own a new Lexmark I3 and I have followed the following guide for how to 
> use lexmark printers on linux...
> http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/lex.html
>
> The only things I did differently with this guide was make symlinks from 
> libtcl and libtk version 8.0 instead of the ones mentioned.  I also had to 
> use alien to convert the rpm files to deb to use on Ubuntu.
>
> I then went on the CUPS web page at port 613 and could see it detected my 
> lexmark I3 on the USB port and also I could see the Z600 driver I just 
> installed.
>
> The only thing is, when I send a job to the printer (i have tried from 
> many programs including the 'lp' command) it stays as 'processing' for a 
> few seconds then goes to 'aborted' - When I click the 'reprint' button I 
> get the 'client-error-not-possible' error.
>
> I did notice there is a page about this error on the cups.org site but I 
> followed the things mentioned and it did not seem to help.
>
> I have set my LogLevel to debug2 and the output from the error_log can be 
> found at http://cyorxamp.info/error_log.txt if it will help anyone in 
> understanding what could be wrong with my set-up.
>
> Unfortunately if I can not get my new printer working on this system 
> (which acts as my server) then my 2 months hard work in understanding 
> linux will have gone to waste as I will be forced to go back to Windows :(
>
> I hope someone can help me!
>
> Steven Maddox
> s.maddox at cyorxamp.info 






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