no printer response, no error reported

G Pollack gerald.pollack at mcgill.ca
Tue Aug 23 12:29:01 PDT 2011


Nope --- there's no response at all.

> It's possible the printer is flushing the job, do you see the data light blinking when you print the job?
>
> > I've compiled and installed the canon mx320 driver for 64-bit linux (mandriva 2010.2, kernel 2.6.33.7). All seems to have gone well, but when I attempt to print to this printer nothing happens; no printing, and also no error in /var/log/cups/error_log. (This is a dual-boot system, and I printing works under Windows.)
> >
> > Here's what I've done so far:
> >
> > cupstestppd reports "Pass", although with several warnings about non-standard names for page sizes
> >
> > lpstat-cups -a reports:
> > Canon-MX320-series accepting requests since Tue 23 Aug 2011 01:31:20 PM EDT
> > Cups-PDF accepting requests since Tue 23 Aug 2011 09:04:19 AM EDT
> > HP-LaserJet-2420 accepting requests since Tue 23 Aug 2011 01:30:54 PM EDT
> >
> > lpr-cups HP-LaserJet-2420 somefile.txt works fine
> > lpr-cups Canon-MX320-series somefile.txt produces no response from the printer, but in the web interface to cups, "Show Completed jobs" lists the job as completed. (I haven't tried printing to Cups-PDF)
> >
> > Any suggestions would be most welcome.
> >
> > Jerry Pollack
>





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