On Wednesday 29 April 2009 09:24:36 am Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:35:23PM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> > Hello Sluggers,
> >
> > 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?
>
> FWIW, I had this problem one time, and the actual issue was that the
> centronics connector on the cable had come loose from the printer
> somewhat. So everything looked to Linux like it was printing, but the
> printer just sat there.
>
Thanks for replying Paul, but no, the first thing I chedcked were the cable
connections.
Now, if everything software related in Linux were OK, wouldn't the KJobViewer
show the message being processed? Nothing shows up in my KJobViewer like
nothing was ever sent to the printer.
Eben, /var/log/cups showsthe jobs completed successfully.
Bob S
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