Printer connection failed after power outage

[Andrew Farris]

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:06 -0500, Barbara Tobias wrote:
> I recently purchased an HP wireless printer 6500 e709n and have been
> using it quite happily with Ubuntu 9.04.  This morning we had a series
> of power outages and now when I attempt to print a test page, it tells
> me:
>     Printer 'HP-Officejet-6500-e709n2' may not be connected.
> 
> However, we can print to this same printer on the same network with a
> Windows PC.  I'm not sure where to look to try to fix it.  I'm wondering
> if I need to remove the printer and reinstall.

It may be worth a shot to just remove/re-add the printer as you were
thinking. It doesn't take long, and it would give you another data point
when trying to figure out your issue.

I'm not sure what else you could do besides that. I mean, depending on
how your network is set up, and how well protected the PC is, there
could have been some data corruption during the unexpected
power-cycling. Somebody else should have some input on the matter
though.

hope that helps!

-- 
Andrew
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