[cups] intermittent cups

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 15 November 2019 23:01:58 Gene Heskett wrote:

Ping!

> On Thursday 14 November 2019 04:01:18 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 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
>
> Now its late Friday night, I'm still on stretch and its still not
> working, and no reply?
>
> Cups is now so determined to prevent this printer hardware from ever
> being used in a different profile, that Wednesday it even removed the
> proper choice of drivers from that menu while starting with the add
> printer menu, and I had to search the filesystem to find the correct
> driver. Little did I know that it was fixing to overwrite a great
> profile for printing a photo on glossy photo paper from tray one, with
> a 2 sided duplex profile using duplex rated paper from tray 2.
>
> There has to be a reason cups is doing that. And there has to be a
> fix.
>
> Wednesday when I first posted, it would present the printer as a
> choice in the add printer menu. Tonight, its even locked this printer
> out of its search for printers. So I can't even select it for a new
> profile. I can modify this one, no problem.
>
> So what is the real problem?, and what is the real fix?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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