Unable to print in Karmic

[Mark Greenwood]

On Tuesday 01 Dec 2009 02:53:48 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> <top-posting since I'm not answering any specific parts of the OP>
> 
> Have you already seen: 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/427653
> 
> Not a solution, but you may want to watch that report, as one may 
> crop up at any time.
> 
>   --Reinhold

Thanks. Turned out it was just me, my printer had run out of ink! The old version of the driver used to have an ink monitor, but that seems to disappeared in Karmic. I didn't know that the printer would simply refuse to print if one of the cartridges was low.. it was only the gloss enhancer and I wasn't even using it!

Mark

> 
> Am Montag 30 November 2009 schrieb Mark Greenwood:
> > I've discovered that since the update to Karmic my printer has
> >  stopped working.
> > 
> > It's an Epson Sytlus Photo R1800. CUPS detects it, uses the
> >  correct Gutenprint driver, and I can configure it using the KDE
> >  Printers control panel exactly as I would expect.
> > 
> > However any attempt to print to it produces nothing. After a very
> >  long delay I get an error in /var/log/cups/error_log something
> >  like
> > 
> > Unable to write 8192 bytes to printer.
> > 
> > I've tried changing permissions in /var/spool/cups to 777, but
> >  even before I did that I could see files appearing in there so I
> >  don't think it's a permissions problem.
> > 
> > The printer's LED flashes during the period when nothing is
> >  happening, so that would indicate the computer is sending data to
> >  the printer, but the test page I'm trying to print is 151K, so it
> >  must be doing it extremely slowly.
> > 
> > Also it worked perfectly under the previous distro I was using on
> >  that PC (Mandriva 2009.1) so I think something in CUPS is very
> >  broken. Googling it I see quite a few people with the same issue
> >  on Karmic, but no solutions. Anybdy have any ideas?
> 
>