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On Sat, Mar 2, 2013, at 4:11, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 13:04 -0800, . wrote:</div>
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For 15 years, CUPS has made me want to kill myself, time and again.</div>
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Isn't there an alternative?</div>
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For just about as long it has worked extremely reliably for me; both at</div>
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home with 2 printers and at work with 114 printers.</div>
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Now see, right there you destroy your credibility with alot of us.</div>
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Lately it simply will not print to my Xerox Phaser 8860 network</div>
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printer INTERMITTENTLY. Usually fails when I have an emergency, like</div>
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right now.</div>
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Ah, do not blame CUPS. Just a few weeks ago I finally managed to kick</div>
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the last Xerox Phaser off my [work] network; replaced by better and MUCH</div>
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MORE RELIABLE Brother MFC-9970 units.</div>
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You don't know what the 8860 is. It is a $2,500 solid-ink commercial printer, and is very reliable. I suspect that whatever Xerox you had was a cheap one.</div>
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How are you attempting to submit jobs to the printer - LPD, IPP, SOCKET,<br />
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etc... ? If you look in "netstat --tcp" is there a connection between</div>
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your CUPS instance and the printer? And what state is it in?</div>
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CUPS can only do so much to work around an extremely flakey and poorly</div>
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desgined device. I'd first suggest just trying a different mechanism to</div>
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submit jobs to the printer; if you are using LPD switch to SOCKET.</div>
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I have the printer set to socket://192.168.1.192</div>
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I can send the Cups test page to it all day long using the web interface, even when it won't print otherwise. I can send pages to the printer all day long using XFCE's Xfprint4 utility which uses the Cups backend, even when it won't print otherwise. The problem THIS TIME is the client. It fails INTERMITTENTLY, which is the very worst kind.</div>
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