On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Bob Stia wrote:
> 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.
>>
> Eben, /var/log/cups showsthe jobs completed successfully.
What shows up in /var/log/{syslog,dmesg} when parport and lp are loaded?
Anything useful?
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