On Monday, March 29, 2021 11:48:48 PM CDT Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 3/30/21 12:57 AM, TomasK wrote:
On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 22:14 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 3/29/21 9:34 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 29/03/2021 23.59, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I think this is getting off the problem--obviously the computer sees the printer-- it turns on the "in-use" light and the little green hosrseshoe indicator, it just doesn't actually print anything. I would think it was a printer problem, but it prints perfectly from a laptop running Mint Linux.
/snio/
This is out of the box - maybe worth checking:
If the printers are wired over Ethernet, is their WiFi connectivity disabled. If not, they could be getting DHCP IP address over WiFi possibly confusing things. Example openSuSE sends packets over to the static IP, the printer responds over DHCP. The Firewall in openSuSE would most likely filter that based on state. Not sure about Mint, but Ubuntu (base for Mint) does not use firewall by default so this kind of situation could work enough.
Just a thought. It is easier to disable/check printer WiFi using their displays than going through long checklist here.
HTH, Tomas
Interesting idea. I'll check it tomorrow--getting late here. Wifi does not work well here anyway--there's some kind of interference from something nearby.--doug
Doug, Yes, follow Tomas' advice and disable the WiFi on the printer. You say these printers have a static IP address, how are you setting these addresses? On the printer itself or in your DHCP server? - If you are setting these static IP addresses on the printers, are they outside of the DHCP server's scope? You don't want 2 devices on the network with the same address. Open a web browser and browse to: localhost:631 this will load the CUPS webpage. Click on Printers in the top dark band. Then click on the Queue Name for the M201 printer. What does it say for Connection: Mark