CentOS 6.2, USB printer, CUPS says printed successfully but page is not printed
Hi,
I'm using CentOS 6.2, and trying to get a printer Brother-MFC-7420 to work. The printer is attached via USB. I've downloaded and installed the drivers from the brother website, and have the printer installed in CUPS. However, when I print anything (even the test page), the job is completed successfully (according to CUPS-log), but the printer does not print a thing. I don't know how to debug this. Have tried to change logging to debug2, but I don't see any errors in the error_log and the access_log says: "POST /printers/MFC7420 HTTP/1.1" 200 482 Print-Job successful-ok" Any hint to find the problem appreciated. (I should add that using the same hardware I can print on a Windows O/S, so we can exclude cable, power problems etc.) Regards Sebastian |
Hi, welcome to LQ.
Typing Code:
localhost:631 From there you could look for instance at the "Jobs" menu entry to check what happened to your job. If needed have a look too to "Administration" => "Manage Printers". If asked for a user name and password, type "root" as user name and and root's password. |
Check the /etc/group file to see that user is part of "lp" group
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Thanks for the suggestions.
@Didier Spaier: Under localhost:631 I can see my jobs under <Show Completed Jobs>. They look like this: ID: MFC7420-48 Name: Test Page User: <my username> Size: 1k Pages: Unknown State: completed at Mon 11 Jun 2012 08:31:09 PM BST Control: <empty> Looking at Printers on the CUPS site I can see the following printer details: Description: Brother MFC-7420 Location: <my hostname> Driver: Brother MFC7420 for CUPS (grayscale) Connection: usb://Brother/MFC-7420 Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in @EDDY1: I checked the /etc/group file, the user was not part of lp group. Tried adding it, does not change anything. |
I just noticed one possible oddity:
I checked my jobs list in CUPS and have only Control: <empty> for canceled jobs, not completed ones. EDIT Did you check this thread? |
I think I found the problem:
glibc was not installed and is a dependency of the Brother MFC-7420 printer drivers. After installing via yum the printer works (prints test page). |
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