printer randomly stops working
Bug #113640 reported by
Ramon de Ruiter
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #35638: Printer is not detected properly over USB.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: cupsys
My printer, a USB Brother HL-1430 (HL-1450 driver) refuses to print documents (Open Office) after it has successfully printed 1 or 2 documents a few hours before. Afaik the printer worked fine before Feisty.
Then the Gnome printing manager displays the error:
Printing: Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...
Yesterday I also had this bug. I "fixed" it like this:
-Delete the printer
-Pull USB plug, wait a sec and reinsert
-Detect new printer (nothing was detected, but that's another bug i guess)
-Reboot
-Printer can now be detected by the wizard and after installing it worked perfectly again (testpage and OOo Writer)
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Brother printer on USB are known to have communication problems. This is probably the same as the problem reported as bug #35638.
The best is probably to use the printer's ethernet connector (if it has one) to get a network add-on for this printer or connect it to the USB printer port of a router ort a network print box.