Jaromil <jaromil@???> escribió:

> On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Noel Torres wrote:
>
>> Just curious...
>>
>> Why not using CUPS ?
>>
>> I've been using it since times' night with no issues.
>
> I use CUPS and i'm intrigued by the thread.
>
> I have two printers, one at home and one in the office.
>
> After I switched to Devuan for all my personal computers, something
> strange happened to me and I'm still not sure it is related to
> Devuan. Believe me when I say I did look deeply into this, but still
> did not manage to get the art of troubleshooting to enligthen my path.
>
> The printer at home worked fine for years, then had some red light
> blinking crisis, believing its toner was over, but it wasn't in fact,
> no actual sign of it on the printed result. Nevertheless, I did change
> the toner. Since the red blinking started and even after the change of
> the toner (which stopped the red blinking) CUPS stopped being capable
> of printing to it.

This has happened to me. Newer versions of CUPS (I do not know from
which one) "Pause" the printer when there is some printing problem.
Like no toner, no paper or printer disconnected.

Maybe just accessing localhost:631 and "Resume" it resolves your problem.

...or not.

Noel
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