Printers disable by themselves
On occasions a print job does not come out on a printer. lpstat -u shows the jobs waiting to be printed and lpstat -t shows the printer as disabled with a time out of some sort.
cupsenable enables the printer and the job comes out on the printer. What could be causing the printer to become disabled and is there a setting that can be modified to avoid this happening in the future? |
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What is your distribution?
I am assuming CUPS is running. What do the logs say? You could have the wrong driver installed for the printer. The fact you eventually get a completed print job probably indicates the connection is good. I did have to restart CUPS on a Red Hat system, because it did not like finding a published printer on another system. Given CUPS had to be restarted on an important production system, I unpublished the printers on the offending system, and all is now well. |
Red Hat Enterprise 4.5
CUPS is running Message: Remote host did not respond with command status byte after 300 seconds! Red hat enterprise has many HP drivers but it does not have one for the HP LJ 2420. I was using generic PCL 5e and just changed it to generic PCL 6. That's how our windows server has it defined. The printer is connected to a Jet Direct box and is defined in two other servers: Windows 2003 and SCO Unix. We'll see if changing the driver helps, if not I'll remove the printer from the other boxes and post the results. |
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It configures the hp itself. The LJ could be got from the linuxprinting |
CUPS Interface on Red Hat Systems
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