problem printing.

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Wed Sep 5 13:21:13 UTC 2007


Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I have a postscript printer on an FC4 parallel port. It works great. 
> I'm running cups on port 631.
>
> [root at saturn cups]# netstat -tulpn | grep :631
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631         0.0.0.0:*  LISTEN      
> 16044/cupsd
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.101:631     0.0.0.0:*  LISTEN      
> 16044/cupsd
>
> On my new F7 box I configured it to know about the printer using 
> system-config-printer. The device URI is socket://saturn:631 and cups 
> is running.
>
> [root at pluto ~]# netstat -tulpn | grep :631
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631   0.0.0.0:*  LISTEN    1793/cupsd
> tcp        0      0 :::631        :::*       LISTEN    1793/cupsd
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631   0.0.0.0:*            1793/cupsd
>
> When I print something on the F7 box, nothing happens. Here's lpstat 
> output:
>
> [root at pluto ~]# lpstat
> hp1320-saturn-3 root    1024   Tue 04 Sep 2007 05:30:13 PM EDT
> hp1320-saturn-5 root    1024   Tue 04 Sep 2007 09:38:23 PM EDT
>
> I'm stumped. Anyone know what I should do or what else I can do to get 
> more info?
>
> TIA
>
For several days now I have had to go to CUPS and stop and start the 
printer after which it immediately begins printing and works normally 
until I shut down and reboot, usually the next morning when I am forced 
to go through this routine again.  It's a minor annoyance and only needs 
doing once so I let it be ...

Bob Goodwin




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