printer doesn't print - usb selection unavailabe
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Connection: hp:/usb/Deskjet_3050A_J611_series?serial=CN14L3C3XB05PJ Today, I try to print. But for some reason it is not in the printer selection menu of libreoffice. So, I go into the cups interface, to delete the printer and restore it, but there is no USB selection. I try the other selection, and it seems to load fine, but I get "rendering complete" and the printer does not react one bit. I tried hp-setup -i, but I don't see the usb: selection either. I also try to do lp -P myprinter file.pdf but the same thing happens. I deleted everything from /var/spool/cups /var/cache/cups /var/run/cups printer.conf. But same thing. What do? |
Could there be a problem with the cable? Does the output of dmesg (as root) show any new USB device when you plug the cable in (when the printer is powered on, of course)?
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[ 7825.225568] usb 1-1.2.1.1: USB disconnect, device number 5 |
The cable is probably OK then. Did you try a reboot? Maybe some kernel driver crashed or something happened. Also, did you do any software upgrades recently?
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hm... now it's "printing" blank pages. Print test page (in cups) is fine.
And the usb selection is back, but that apparently didn't fix the problem. The only thing I did last night was unplug the cord to the usb dongle the printer is attached to. And yea, I rebooted a few times. This is the cups settings, if it helps any. Code:
deneir (Idle, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared) |
Printing the test page fine? That's weird. I'm out of ideas really, but as a general principle, mysterious errors and such inconsistent behaviour indicate a possible hardware problem.
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hm.... I had saved it with LibreOffice as a PDF file, so lpr could print it. But it turned out the libreoffice saved it as a blank file, for whatever reason. So, lpr was printing just fine, because it was printing a blank page.
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