<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Michael - it is standard practice for you to respond to the list not direct to your responder.</div><div>The reason for this is so others can follow the thread and perhaps learn and/or contribute.</div><div><br></div><div>In what follows I have assumed your printer is connected direct to your ubuntu device or across wifi.  If your printer is connected direct to your router then there could be router issues.<br></div><div><br></div><div>First, let us determine that your system is up to date.  Inside a terminal issue the command sudo apt update followed by sudo apt upgrade.  Those 2 commands will bring us to the latest state.<br></div><div>Next  establish whether cups is installed.</div><div>Best way is to issue this command inside a terminal session</div><div>sudo apt install cups</div><div><br></div><div>Your system will either respond "cups is already the newest version....." or it will say it is not installed or not at the newest version</div><div><br></div><div> If it is not installed then issue the command sudo apt install cups.  If you install cups - best to shutdown system and reboot.  Try printing after reboot.</div><div><br></div><div>If cups is installed then issue these commands <br><pre><code>sudo apt-get install cups --reinstall
sudo service cups restart<br><br></code></pre><pre><code><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Then try printing again.<br><br></font></code></pre><pre><code><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If none of the above works establish whether you have a /atc/cups/cupsd.conf file<br> and if not issue these commands<br><code>sudo cp /usr/share/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
sudo service cups restart</code><br><br></font></code></pre><pre><code><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hope that helps.<br></font></code></pre><pre><code><br></code></pre></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 19:44, michael <<a href="mailto:michael.penllergaer@btinternet.com" target="_blank">michael.penllergaer@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Ubuntu provides the printer driver, 16.04 is my O/S. The device
      is detected, shows has installed, but a print request produces the
      cups message. Samsung only provivide a "quick-start-guide" owners
      manual which might provide more information, is 300 pages long, a
      toner-cartridge full. Analysis shows toner cartridge is "full". I
      have exhausted all possibilities, is the "sudo apt install cups"
      terminal input needed, please. I'm lost !<br>
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        printer?  How did you install/add the printer to your device? 
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              Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:25:33 +0000<br>
              From: michael <<a href="mailto:michael.penllergaer@btinternet.com" target="_blank">michael.penllergaer@btinternet.com</a>><br>
              To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
              Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Samsung M2070 cups problem<br>
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              New printer, print request returns "Cups server error,
              there was an <br>
              error during the cups operation". <br>
              "Client-error-document-format-not-supported" Printer is
              new, same <br>
              problem I had with a Kyocera (now removed). Any
              suggestions please, is <br>
              "sudo apt install cups" necessary as well ? Tks.<br>
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              Message: 5<br>
              Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:21:50 +0000<br>
              From: michael <<a href="mailto:michael.penllergaer@btinternet.com" target="_blank">michael.penllergaer@btinternet.com</a>><br>
              To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
              Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samsung M2070 cups problem<br>
              Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:223d30f2-4995-2b40-c239-6638739914c4@btinternet.com" target="_blank">223d30f2-4995-2b40-c239-6638739914c4@btinternet.com</a>><br>
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              Sry, O/S for my Samsung M2070 is Ubuntu 16.04<br>
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              On 30/12/2018 22:25, michael wrote:<br>
              > New printer, print request returns "Cups server
              error, there was an <br>
              > error during the cups operation". <br>
              > "Client-error-document-format-not-supported" Printer
              is new, same <br>
              > problem I had with a Kyocera (now removed). Any
              suggestions please, is <br>
              > "sudo apt install cups" necessary as well ? Tks.<br>
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