[breezy] Printer stopped working

[Alastair Preston]

On Tuesday May 16 2006 03:45 am, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a weird problem, my printer justed stopped working.
>
> What happened was that I cancelled (with kjobviewer) an active printjob.
> Then send another printjob, and it just got stuck in queue. Tried
> cancelling/resending a couple of job, turn the printer on/off a couple of
> times. 
How long did you leave the printer turned off?  To clear the remnant of an 
unfinished job from it's RAM may require it to be turned off for 10 to 30 
seconds. Same for the status registers.  I've found, in similar instances, 
that turning the printer off then on again too soon can result in the printer 
spewing out random characters when it restarts.

> Nothing. Then I noticed 2 processes sucking all cpu (called 
> something along the lines of "gimageprint" or something like the). Killed
> them and try to send new printjobs. Still stuck i queue. Rebooted the
> computer a couple of times, cleared /var/spool/cups... still nothing.
>
> Status right now is that the printer is flagged as "Status: stopped
> (accepting jobs)" in the kprinter-dialog.

Go into CUPS configuration (http://localhost:631) and restart the printer.
>
> I don't know where to go from here.
>
> Bjarne