[cups] Waiting for the printer to become available (forever)

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Mon Feb 1 12:15:04 PST 2021



> Am 31.01.2021 um 17:29 schrieb NĂ©stor <nestorac at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Raspberry pi OS based on Debian Buster, CUPS 2.2.10. My
> printer is a brother HL-L2350DW, connected by USB. I have installed
> the official Brother driver (necessarily i386, not ARM). I have used a
> raspberry pi 2, but now I have upgraded it to raspberry pi 4 (4GiB
> RAM). Everything works except the printer, which used to work with
> rpi2, even if slowly.
> 
> The log shows no error messages. The printer queue says "Waiting for
> the printer to become available".
> 
> What can I do?
> 

run
ipptool [options] get-printer-attributes.test

select options according to your needs. For the details read the 
ipptool manpage.

Helge




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