Print jobs on ubuntu (Feisty Fawn)

Paul King sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Sat Oct 20 12:37:15 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-19-10 at 09:36 -0400, E K wrote:
> --- Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > Ubuntu detected my wireless printer (a Brother MFC-640CW), and I
> > was
> > able to download and install drivers for it. The problem is that it
> > simply won't print. Brother recommends an MFC-210C driver for my
> > printer
> > under Linux/CUPS.
> 
> This might be a problem with the spooler. What is the status of the
> print queue when you check is with lpstat -t?
> 
> EK
> 
Here is the output of lpstat -t :

scheduler is running
system default destination: MFC-640CW
device for MFC-640CW: socket://192.168.0.103
MFC-640CW accepting requests since Sat 20 Oct 2007 08:18:02 AM EDT
printer MFC-640CW is idle.  enabled since Sat 20 Oct 2007 08:18:02 AM
EDT
        Ready to print.
MFC-640CW-13     pking    153600   Fri 19 Oct 2007 04:41:06 AM EDT

So, I seem to be getting what I call the "Windows diagnosis" ("this
device is working properly", regardless of the state, condition, or
appropriateness of the driver or device).

It seems that the printer is "idle" and "ready to print" but it has a
job queued, which hasn't printed since yesterday (it is the same print
job, which I still haven't deleted from the queue).

I didn't know about lpstat. Sounds like a good command to remember.
However, it doesn't seem too informative right about now. Any other
suggestions?

Thanks for your help so far.

Paul King

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