Hi,

I have a Brother HL-5040 laser printer connected to a PM1115U print server. I was able to print to it just fine for quite a while, when running Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10. Then one day it just stopped working. When I try to print a test page, it just hangs in the queue and I end up having to power cycle the print server to unjam things. Sometimes I will eventually get part of a page. Recently, one of my disks started to fail, so I rebuilt the system from scratch using 14.04 - same problem.

I've tried setting it up using a number of different protocols and drivers, but none of them work correctly. Windows 7 systems that are on the network are able to print to it just fine. Basically, I've run out of ideas on how to debug this. Any thoughts?

Also, I just found out that all you have to do with the current setup is wait a couple of hours and the test page gets printed? As recommended, it is currently using the hl1250 driver. The device URI that I am using is socket://192.168.1.170. Although the page has printed, 'lpstat -t' still says that it is waiting for the printer to finish.

I can't imagine why the delay with the print job, but the CUPS error and page log should help determine the nature of the problem.

Remove all stale jobs with
and try checking the printer status again. Perhaps it might also be useful to use wireshark to check the network activity while sending a print job.