On Sunday 14 March 2010 11:09:19 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Peter Alcibiades wrote:
So it would be nice to be able to use lp. But how? And does anyone have any suggestion why it might not be working or what to check?
I also cannot figure out, despite much googling, how to test for whether the raw printer is on line and functioning. Nothing I have tried gives any different result if it is powered on or off.
What does the printer status say in the cups admin pages ? i.e https://localhost:631
Don't bother with the test print option from there, it will print rubbish on your printer and probably lots of it.
But it should be fairly obvious there why the printer is accepting jobs but not printing them,
Peter
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Wayne, thanks for replying.
This is the puzzling thing: it just hangs. From the terminal:
lp -d star printemp.txt request id is star-1091 (1 file(s))
lpq -P star shows
lpq -P star star is ready and printing Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size active peter 1091 printemp.txt 1024 bytes
in Cups it shows processing since 15.30 - that is an hour or so now.
star-1091 printemp.txt peter 1k Unknown processing since Sun Mar 14 15:30:14 2010
But nothing comes out of the printer.
I must be missing something simple. But what?
Peter