automatically power on my printer?

[Aaron E.]

Install the hplip package for your distribution and test the different 
drivers, I had a similar issue the other day and it simply turned out to 
be the driver that was being used.

On 12/21/2011 02:29 AM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> I have an HP Deskjet connected to my computer via USB, and CUPS seems to be configured correctly to use it (when it's on, it prints perfectly). However, there's a feature I'm missing: in Windows, when it's off and I try to print, it turns itself on.
>
> Can CUPS be coerced into turning my printer on for me automatically?
>
> (Forgive me if this has been asked before; I did spend about 45 minutes on Google and in my distribution's IRC channel trying to find previous answers to this question, positive or negative, with no luck.)
>
> ~d