Printer giving up silently since upgrade

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 10:19 -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: 
> I upgraded my Desktop to 10.10 from 10.04 last week, and now I'm having
> trouble printing some of my files.  One file in particular just causes
> the printer to turn on all its lights and sit there.   I have looked at
> syslog, messages, and /var/log/cups/*, and there don't seem to be any
> error messages.
> 
> The printer is a Brother HL5250DN.

Check the usual suspects first? Ink Supply, paper jam, lack of paper,
parallel/USB plugged firmly in? Blinking lights on the printer usually
indicates a printer problem begging to become fixed. Or, it doesn't
understand what to do with the file sent to it. It suffers. :) Ric


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