jack
Jack,
Firstly regarding the lockups with cups, try using lpstat -t
Ok I will try that the next time I have a problem. Thanks
to see the status of your printers before killing cups. If the printers are disabled (as I found on my friends box) use the command /usr/bin/enable <printer> I found the following on the net which should be sufficient to get you going. If you use google you will find quite a few hits.
I did google an ask.com an guess I was not using a good search phrase. found likes to ipp stuff an some links that were no longer working though. again thanks will check into this tomorrow an give it a try on my main machine at work as a trial. I usually do that before I deploy it out on other machines. again thanks for the info jack