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I am using MandrivaLinux 2006 (KDE 3.4), and a HP 845c printer.
For some time, I have been able to print things with no problems.
I recently formatted the PC, and now, I can't get this to print always. I get this error:
A print error occurred. Error message received from system:
Unable to start child print process. The KDE print server (kdeprintd) could not be contacted. Check that this server is running.
I think I did something to get it printing again, some wizard to configure it. It worked, now it's failed again, and I haven't rebooted again or anything.
For the first question, yes, I allowed other uses to use this.
What is odd, it has worked flawlessly for so long, and then, it won't print sometimes.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. After a format, I haven't noticed anything so far.
As for CUPS, I'm assuming, not sure what that is.
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