[plug] USB Printer Not Working

[Cameron Patrick]

Tim White wrote:

> I have set it up using cups and the foomatic driver, "Lexmark X73 drv_z42"
> When I print to it nothing happens and if I go to complete jobs under
> http://localhost:631 it shows the jobs as aborted.

I've never used a USB printer before, so I'm not sure how much help I
can be.  Is there anything interesting in /var/log/cups/error_log ?

> The status is "idle and accepting jobs" even when the printer is
> disconnected (physically)

That's normal-ish -- at least network printers do that for me.

Cameron.