printer stopped working - solved partially

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 22:46 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Sunday 03 July 2005 22:04, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > Now, I am surprised that it worked straight away last week when I bought
> > the printer. I plugged it in, switched on, configured the printer and
> > printing worked. Now, I've been trying for over 6 hours and can't even get
> > an error message when I try to print. Something has gone completely broken,
> > but what ?!?
> > The printer shows idle (accepting jobs). It doesn't do a damn thing, so
> > even the reporting is wrong.
> 
> It turns out the driver that worked last week, stopped working.
> Selected another driver and it started printing.
> 
> Please someone improve cups error messages as this was only solved by trial 
> and error and took me 6 hours before I came to idea to try another driver.
> 
> I still don't know what's wrong with the driver that worked last week though.

My guess is the old driver is fine.
I'm guessing there was something that interrupted printing and cups took
the printer offline, I've seen that happen before - and the way I fix it
is to go to http://localhost:631 - log in, clear the que if there is on,
and start the printer.