[ale] Printer troubles

[Tim Watts]

Hi,

This is what displays when I go to localhost:631/printers

Description: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1012
 Location: USB printer on /dev/usb/lp0
 Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs. 
"Unable to send print file to printer: No such device" 
Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0

Does "stopped" mean disabled or just idle? /dev/usb/lp0 definitely exists:

crw-rw----  1 root lp 180, 0 2004-10-01 23:17 /dev/usb/lp0

When I click on the "Start Printer" link I get an Authorization Dialog but no 
username/passwords seem to work (not even root!) How do I find out what a 
valid login would be?

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 20:48, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Lately I have had issues with cups deciding to "disable" a printer for
> no apparent reason. The symptoms are what you are experiencing, print
> button happens, things seem to queue but no paper emerges.
>
> Do the browser cups thing  http://localhost:631  and select printers and
> see if it has been disabled.
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 20:17 -0500, Tim Watts wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My print jobs are queueing up but not printing. /usr/sbin/cupsd is
> > running. Can anyone give me a pointer as to what's (not) going on on my
> > Suse 9.2 server?
> >
> > Thanks.
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