Re: CUPS

On 7/27/14, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Nick Edwards wrote:
>
>> Thanks I'll give it a go Only noticed this because just replaced our
>> ubuntu print server with slackware (all other serves are slackware anyway
>> so why not) but for the life of me it wont print .conf files, sits there
>> forever saying Idle - "Sending data to printer." but it clearly is not
>> hell the thing wont even print the test page "no profiles specified in
>> PPD" even copied the types and convs files from .../share/cups to
>> /etc/cups, no difference.
>
> Nick,
>
>    Allow me a suggstion based on my experiences here (with an HP LaserJet 5
> and HP Color LaserJet 2550: delete and re-add the printers in CUPS. A few
> months ago, I think one instance was after the upgrade to 14.1, I could
> print nothing, not even the test pages.
>
>    So, because there was nothing else for me to do, I deleted those
> printers
> and added them back in. That fixed the problem.
>
>    It might be that the printer definitions seen by a newly installed (or
> upgraded) CUPS are different from those already seen on the Printers page
> of
> the CUPS administrative interface.
>
>    If you try it, let us know the results.
>
> Rich
>
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deleted and added about 30 times before I resorted to posting on list
so thats not the problem.
and I rhought you only needed to do that on windows boxen :->