printer not connected error

tj 999alfred at comcast.net
Tue Feb 6 07:56:53 PST 2007


Bingo, thanks Till that fixed both problems.

tj

> tj wrote:
> > I just downloaded and installed 1.2.7 and that cured the "Printers" page not displaying problem. But, now I have another problem.
> > My printer shows it's state as "idle, accepting jobs, published" and "usb:/dev/usb/lp0", but when I try to print a test page I get "printer not connectd error".
> >
> > My /proc/bus/usb/devices shows a "Driver=usblp", so I guess my printer is getting into the usb system and I only have one printer.
> >
>
> usb:/dev/usb/lp0 is not supported any more. Run "lpinfo -v" and you will
> see a URI containing the printer's model name. Copy and paste that URI.
>
> > So why the "not connected error"?
> >
> > Also, cupsd went from about 239KB to 1.7MB in size. What a jump!!!
> >
>
> Probably your old cupsd was from a binary package from your Linux
> distribution. In such executables the debugging information was removed
> from the binary and therefore the files are smaller. You can do this
> with your self-compiled cupsd by doing "strip cupsd".
>
>     Till
>





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