[ale] Printer problems

[Jim Philips]

On Saturday 09 December 2006 11:11, Vikram Nanda wrote:
> While trying to print a document yesterday, I discovered that the
> printer had vanished from the menu.
>
> Went to system settings..../Printers ... I received an error message
> Unable to retrieve printer list. Error received from the manager:
> Connection to the cups server failed. Check that the cups server is
> correctly installed and running.
>
>
> The cups server had actually stopped running.When I try starting cupsys
> from the services menu, a blank window pops up.
>
> I have Ubuntu edgy running.
>
> Any idea why this is happening and what could be the solution

I had similar problems. Two things were going on:

1. My firewall wasn't allowing connections to the CUPS server.
2. I needed the cupsys interface to the Gutenprint drivers.