On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 14:25 -0700, Alice E. Peters wrote:
> Dylan,
> 
> Thanks for the pointers. I pulled up a terminal, typed "su" as my son-in-law has had 
> me do, then typed in my password, then the line you gave me for CUPS. I got "command 
> not found"
> 

> 
> 1. Ensure CUPS (your internal print server, in essence) is started by
> typing:
>     $ ps ax | grep cupsd

did you type in the character ($) ?

if so, try again without that. 

> My printer has been connected to this computer and working well since early last 
> November. The cable is connected securely, printed out the test page. The orange 
> light is blinking indicating either paper is needed or is ready to print. But when I 
> put in paper it pulls all the pages through and types lines of symbols/etc. across 
> the top of each page.
> 
> I have dusted it out, tried to make sure there's not anything in there that's 
> keeping it from working. Actually, when this first happened, my son-in-law did 
> something that he said was to "clean out the old jobs that were still in there" and 
> it worked for two days. Then it started the same process again.
> 
> Any more ideas?
> 
> Thanks!!!
> Alice
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