Re: [gentoo-user] My printing's not working. Help, please!
On Saturday 14 Apr 2012 01:57:13 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Apr 14, 2012 4:59 AM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 03:39:12PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, all. My printing's not working. I've got cups-1.4.8-r1 installed. If I attempt to print from (say) Mozilla, everything appears to go fine up to the actual printing. I do # lpq , then I get this: ML-1450 is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active acm 44 Lernen im Internet - Anmeldung 94208 bytes . However the printer isn't actually printing. I know there's nothing wrong with the printer or USB cable as such, since I can do $ echo printing^L /dev/lp0 , and a page with printing on it comes out of my printer. Any suggestions? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). Have you checked the cups setup - http://localhost:631 - and looked at all the setup settings and the Jobs queue? Sounds like a driver issue to me, but I always use HP printers, and hplip takes care of the drivers. I'm not familiar with the drivers for Samsung products. Perhaps someone will come along who has that printer that can assist you. Also you might ask on freenode IRC, channel #gentoo. That is a very helpful resource. Good luck! Terry The backend driver might be failing. See cups error log. Also, reconfigure the driver in http://localhost:631 because sometimes drivers change and your cups set up may still be pointing to the old driver. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] My printing's not working. Help, please!
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 03:39:12PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, all. My printing's not working. I've got cups-1.4.8-r1 installed. If I attempt to print from (say) Mozilla, everything appears to go fine up to the actual printing. I do # lpq , then I get this: ML-1450 is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active acm 44 Lernen im Internet - Anmeldung 94208 bytes . However the printer isn't actually printing. I know there's nothing wrong with the printer or USB cable as such, since I can do $ echo printing^L /dev/lp0 , and a page with printing on it comes out of my printer. Any suggestions? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). Have you checked the cups setup - http://localhost:631 - and looked at all the setup settings and the Jobs queue? Sounds like a driver issue to me, but I always use HP printers, and hplip takes care of the drivers. I'm not familiar with the drivers for Samsung products. Perhaps someone will come along who has that printer that can assist you. Also you might ask on freenode IRC, channel #gentoo. That is a very helpful resource. Good luck! Terry
Re: [gentoo-user] My printing's not working. Help, please!
On Apr 14, 2012 4:59 AM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 03:39:12PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, all. My printing's not working. I've got cups-1.4.8-r1 installed. If I attempt to print from (say) Mozilla, everything appears to go fine up to the actual printing. I do # lpq , then I get this: ML-1450 is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active acm 44 Lernen im Internet - Anmeldung 94208 bytes . However the printer isn't actually printing. I know there's nothing wrong with the printer or USB cable as such, since I can do $ echo printing^L /dev/lp0 , and a page with printing on it comes out of my printer. Any suggestions? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). Have you checked the cups setup - http://localhost:631 - and looked at all the setup settings and the Jobs queue? Sounds like a driver issue to me, but I always use HP printers, and hplip takes care of the drivers. I'm not familiar with the drivers for Samsung products. Perhaps someone will come along who has that printer that can assist you. Also you might ask on freenode IRC, channel #gentoo. That is a very helpful resource. Good luck! Terry The backend driver might be failing. See cups error log. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
