[cups] LaserJet stopped working

Ken Wright wizard at koalatyworks.com
Mon Apr 10 20:34:13 PDT 2023


Power-cycled the printer.  Now the server can print, but anything I try
to print from the laptop still ends up paused.

On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 09:52 -0700, Jim Weill wrote:
> I'm assuming you have power cycled the printer?
> 
> What usually worked for me was power cycling the printer and
> restarting the queue in cups.
> 
> jim
> 
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:21 AM Ken Wright <wizard at koalatyworks.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have a LaserJet M15a connected to my Ubuntu server via a USB
> > cable.  The printer is shared, but when I try to print to it the
> > job just says "pending" and stays that way until it expires.
> > 
> > Last night I tried printing from the server, and got no results
> > either.  This time, though, the print jobs (in CUPS) appeared to
> > work, but there was still no printing.
> > 
> > Any ideas or suggestions will be gratefully accepted!


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