On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > All my printers are networked via ethernet. I have an ancient desktop Laserjet > 4 Plus whose IP address is 192.168.0.15. I can ping it fine. But I can't seem > to send a print job to it. > > First, I migrated all my printer setups from my old Ubuntu hard disk. I did > this by copying /etc/init.d/cups/cups.conf and the entire contents of the ppd > folder. I also restarted the computer. The printers appear in the Printer > configuration window. I can send a test page to it from any of the three > drivers that I have installed, and the test page appears in the print queue. > However, in the print queue it is listed as pending. > > The printer is enabled, accepting jobs. I can't find anything wrong in the GUI > for the driver properties. However, looking at top the cupsd service is not > running. I thought you started and stopped CUPS with > > /etc/init.d/cups/ ./cups stop/start
Huh? > But that does not work, and there doesn't seem to be any executable files in > the folder anyway. I know in top when it is running it is listed as cupsd, but > that doesn't work either. > > I have also restarted the computer, but the cupsd service is still not > running. > I think it is supposed to start automatically whenever an app sends a print > job > to a printer, but I'm not sure about that. > > I really need to get my printers working ASAP. /etc/init.d/cups start or (a bit of a Red Hat-ism): service cups start -- Dan Young _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
