[nylug-talk] Ubuntu: Not Connected? Printer may not be connected

[Chris Knadle]

On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Seth Rothenberg wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has experiences, good or bad,
> with printing from Ubuntu?
>
> I installed Ubuntu on this machine because it supported PSC-1310.
> When the new Ubuntu came out, I did dist-upgrade - to 7.10

   There have been some updates to CUPS drivers, many of which recommend to 
remove printers in CUPS and remake them to use the new driver.

> I have found that printing generally works.

   Ever since switching to CUPS printing on *nix has generally been a 
pleasure.  [And the exceptions are mostly complaints of "I can't print this 
web page..." because the web page wasn't designed for printing.]

> But every so often the system forgets that the printer is there.
>
> I get this:
> Not Connected?  Printer PSC... may not be connected
>
> Rebooting the printer resolves it.
>
> Any thoughts?

   You want help debugging a printer connection issue, you should mention how 
the printer is connected.  Parallel port?  USB?  Network?

   If it's connected via USB, have a look at the output of the 'dmesg', as 
there are kernel messages as USB devices are added or removed.  Is perhaps 
the computer on a UPS but not the printer?

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us