On Sat May 6 21:11:09 2023 Alex King <a...@king.net.nz> wrote:
> Printing on Linux is poor. CUPS is poor. It doesn't work for some (a > lot?) of people. > > I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer. It is connected to my (Debian > bullseye) workstation by USB. I have CUPS installed. > > My printer prints sometime. Other times, it spins up (makes a noise > like it is about to start printing), but nothing comes out. I can't > get any useful diagnostics to tell me where the problem might be. > > My parents, who live some distance away have an HP inkjet printer. > It works sometimes. Other times it doesn't. I get it set up so it's > working and it might work for a while, but it will stop working for > no reason. <snip> I've managed to get CUPS working reasonably well, although occasionally I lose the ability to print. Although I don't have a permanent fix, going into CUPS by pointing a web browser at localhost:631, removing the printer, and adding it back in gets things going again. My printer is connected via Ethernet; I suspect that power outages might cause DHCP to give it a different IP address when it comes back up, and CUPS gets confused. Since you 're using a USB connection, this might not help you - but you might try removing and re-adding the printer anyway. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | It can be beautiful - X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Lily Tomlin
