Re: [SLUG] Printer not getting jobs

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 08:48:34 EDT

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Bob Stia wrote:

> Running SuSE 10.3 and Kde 3.5
>
> I have an Epson Stylus C86 running on a parallel port
> This is the driver:
> Epson Stylus C86 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.1 Simplified
>
> All of a sudden the printer stopped getting jobs. After I send a job it does
> not show up in KJobViewer. Also tried a "test print" from the printer setup
> dialog to no avail.It shows the page being processed but nothing happens and
> the printing message goes away after an appropriate amount of time. No error
> messages. Reinstalled it and still no good.
>
> Where do I look?

Ideas: unidirectional printer port and printer "offline"? Have you checked
/var/log/syslog or /var/log/cups/* ? 

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