[plug] Printer won't print

[Margaret Wood]

Hi Lance

It's a very sensible question - I did initilally forget that I needed
to log out and back in, but I did try that later, and it made no
difference.

Margaret

On 27/03/2013, Lance Duivenbode <lduivenbode.lists at multistat.org> wrote:
> Hi Margaret,
>
> This may be a silly question but have you logged out and back in since
> you added yourself to the printer group? Group membership is cached upon
> login and since KDE will spawn new processes from it's original login
> they inherit the membership.
>
> Cheers,
> Lance
>
> On 27/03/13 15:56, Margaret Wood wrote:
>> I got Mageia 3 installed on Monday, and am using KDE. My printer,
>> (Epson Stylus Color 600) which is connected via a parallel port
>> (parallel:/dev/lp0) successfully printed a test page.
>>
>> Today when I tried to print from Konqueror I got an error dialog.
>> "The queue 'Epson-Stlylus-Color-600' is not enabled. The reason given
>> is 'Rendering completed'
>> To enable it select the 'Enabled' checkbox in the 'Policies' tab for
>> the printer in the printer administration tool"
>>
>> I've done that, but it just reverts to unselected whenever I try to
>> print. I've checked  /var/log/cups/error_log which shows "[Job 9]
>> Unable to open device file: Permission denied"
>> /dev/lp0 has group write permission for the group lp, and I've added
>> myself to that group but it still doesn't work.
>> I've tried running Konqueror as root but I still get the "Permission
>> denied" error message.
>>
>> The contents of  /etc/cups/printers.conf are as follows
>>
>> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.5.4
>> # Written by cupsd on 2013-03-27 12:29
>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
>> <DefaultPrinter Epson-Stylus-Color-600>
>> UUID urn:uuid:b409ce6e-cef8-3c3b-5b9b-a15fbe40fb35
>> Info Epson Stylus Color 600
>> MakeModel Epson Stylus Color 600 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 Simplified
>> DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
>> State Stopped
>> StateMessage Rendering completed
>> StateTime 1364358564
>> Reason paused
>> Type 8425484
>> Accepting Yes
>> Shared Yes
>> JobSheets none none
>> QuotaPeriod 0
>> PageLimit 0
>> KLimit 0
>> OpPolicy default
>> ErrorPolicy stop-printer
>> </Printer>
>> printer.conf.20130327 (END)
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to get it working would be very welcome
>>
>> Margaret
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