[plug] USB Printer Not Working

[Aaron Devenny]

Hi Tim, to find this you may need to look in your cups.log file.  Setting up
your printer driver and CUPS is only the start of getting your printer
system to work.  CUPS also depends on GhostScript and a font library/font
mapping to a usable font.   The most common problem I found when trying to
get a printer running from scratch was missing fonts.  If you cant see any
errors in your cups.log, you may need to turn up the debugging. Setting
"LogLevel debug2" will give you a nice output to your error file to help
track things down. Your cups config is most likely at
"/etc/cups/cupsd.conf".

Hope this helps.
Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au]
On Behalf Of Cameron Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 5:21 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] USB Printer Not Working

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.

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