[cups] Brother vs cups, 0,1 in favor of cups

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Sun Dec 23 17:39:49 PST 2018


On Sunday 23 December 2018 19:29:31 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Friday 02 November 2018 17:59:51 Helge Blischke wrote:
> > I’d suggest to do the following:
> > (1) execute:
> > 	cupsctl —debug-logging
>
> I haven't tried to install the new gs yet. Have different problem.
>
> Installed the new /usr/bin/pdftops and chown'd it to match the rest of
> those utils, so it looks like them for perms.
> Restarted /etc/init/cups.
> Printed pastel test page, noticed a plugged nozzle in the C(opyright).
> went to localhost:631/printers and issued a clean heads command, jobs
> menu say's it an invalid command. Put old pdftops back in, restarted
> cups. put a tail on the log and did it again. job 1020
>
> Log attached. AFAIK, nothing but pdftops was touched, and its now the
> original. But obviously something was touched as I installed some .dev
> stuff to reduced the no's in the gs ./configure results. It prints a
> pastel test page just like always.  Wierdsville seems to be my home
> address. I just looked in the fridge for one of my near beers, and
> that guy Murphy has drank my last one again!
>
> gs builds just fine from the looks of it, but is not the 9.25 I
> downloaded yet. Everything s/b back to square one, where we started.
> Except now I can't clean heads.

Chuckle, Oops, typu.  I spent half a now long lifetime in a broadcasting 
facility, where the most common emergency was cleaning heads on a tape 
machine. Printer heads have nozzles, not gaps, so pardon the typo.

> Have a Merry Christmas Helge, and thank you.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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