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Re: [SLE] Printer Problems
  • From: Steve Graegert <graegerts@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:55:06 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <6a00c8d50511201255g49564cafm3615a7e39680e2fa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 11/20/05, Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Having an issue on my Mom's system. She runs SuSE (short u) 9.2 on a Monarch
> Systems AMD Sempron 3000 with 1GB RAM. She has an Epson Stylus Photo 300r USB
> printer.

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> Last week, however, her printer stopped. I can't figure out what's going on.
> CUPS says the printer is alive and well. Printing a test page from the
> printer console works fine. However, there is never any output from printing
> in KDE or using the lpr command. The print jobs simply queue up and stall.
> I've reinstalled the printer and no luck.

What does lpq show? Are the jobs transfered successfully (size > 0)
and are you able to cancel jobs manually? Is the printer connected
via USB or parport?

\Steve

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