[cups] intermittent cups

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 13 November 2019 11:38:31 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 09 November 2019 10:40:50 Steve Root wrote:
> > > Unforch, marking as shared is being ignored,
> >
> > I thought that too, until I realised sharing has to be enabled at
> > both admin page + for each individual printer being shared.
> > Sharing just at printer settings alone won't work, sharing just at
> > admin page alone won't work.
>
> So I see. But that requires a server restart, but it won't so I
> goto /etc/init.d and do ./cups restart
>  which probably isn't correct.  Takes at least 15 seconds to return,
> but now it has been restarted, and the printer is now shared!
>
> Thank you. Now I'll try adding the other printer, also a brother but
> an ink squirter monster that can do 11x17 pages if you speak to it in
> hushed, very reverent tones and feed it one page at a time from the
> rear slot. Pain in the ass, but sure beats 4x the cutting and taping
> of rockhopper output on 8.5x11 letter paper.
>
> Well, gotta quit for the time being the missus wants something to eat,
> and thats my #1 job.
>
> 2 things, it won't let me reuse a driver for the next printers profile
> for the same printer once its been used, so I've had to wade thru
> through the file system, find it and select it manually.
>
> 2nd, none of the color intensity things has ever had any effect. Now
> they seem to work, and printing a test page on photo paper from tray
> one looks 20,000% percent better than ever before.  Before the color
> was always very pale & non-adjustable. Thank you for whatever was
> fixed.
>
But now I've run into another of cups foibles.  After I had composed a 
profile that does a fantastic job on a photo, using photo paper from the 
top tray, I went on to compose a profile that does a speedy job on text, 
duplex on duplex copy paper from the bottom tray.

THIS PRINTER CAN HAVE MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES! ALL AVAILABLE USING THE 
SAME BROTHER SUPPLIED DRIVER. 

So I compose that, test and save it AND IT OVERWRITES THE PHOTO 
PROFILE!!!! WITHOUT AN ARE YOU SURE OR ANY OTHER INDICATION ITS ABOUT TO 
OVERWRITE A WORKING PROFILE.  Yes I'm upset. I would think that by now, 
owners of $400 and up printers would have raised enough of a fuss to get 
that fixed.  As far as we are concerned, its a bug!

I had, when on wheezy, figured out a way to do this and had 5 different 
profiles all setup and instantly useable, but that was long ago and far 
away.  Some field in the printers on screen profile must be unique while 
still pointing to the same pile of hardware, and one would assume the 
description field being unique would do, but bad dog, no biscuit. I did 
NOT modify that printer, but added a printer, choosing the same model 
number from the choices of printers to add.

So what "field" has to be unique in order for parallel, using the same 
hardware but driven by differently edited ppd profiles, to be able to 
co-exist on the same server? So that each one is truly a unique 
capability printer?

Thank you

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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