[PLUG] Help! Can't print my homework
John Jason Jordan
johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Jan 21 04:46:47 UTC 2014
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:31:34 -0800
Eric Wilhelm <enobacon at gmail.com> dijo:
># from John Jason Jordan on Monday 20 January 2014:
>>Xerox-Phaser-7400DN-PPD3 accepting requests since Mon 20 Jan 2014
>>06:33:09 PM PST
>http://www.phasersmart.com/ maybe? If the diagnostics come out ok at
>the printer, you know CUPS is the problem. Maybe a conflict with that
>IP, or the printer is borked. You did try turning it off and on again?
Yes, I tried turning it off and on again, and also rebooted the
computer. No joy. I didn't try phasersmart.com yet.
>You may have something wedged in the jobs queue of your CUPS. Are you
>looking at http://localhost:631/ or some gnome control panel? Look at
>the jobs queue, maybe even check "completed jobs" for something
>suspicious. Restarting CUPS and/or your computer may not remove the
>job from the queue. I've sometimes seen `top` reveal a ghostscript
>job running on 100% of a core.
My googling turned up localhost:631 and I was amazed. There are all my
printers! Cool tool! However, after poking around I found nothing that
would solve the problem. Interestingly, this is what it says for the
printers that I have installed for this print device (it says the same
thing for all of them):
Xerox Phaser 7400DN PPD3 Local Raw Printer
Processing - "The printer is in use."
>Can you print to it from a different computer?
I haven't tried that yet. My old printer is sitting here turned
off, and it might get me by, but sooner or later I have to get this
printer working from the new computer, so I'm spending my efforts on
that first.
I am wondering if there is a config file somewhere that CUPS uses to
get printer data. Perhaps I can manually modify it or delete it.
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