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cupsys package

  1. Bug #35638
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 35638

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Stanley Sokolow (overbyte) wrote : Re: Hl-1050 is not detected properly

Results of trying it on live CD of earlier releases:

5.10 (Breezy) shows the printer as visible all the time and does not cycle between invisible & visible randomly on 'lpinfo -v' output. However, when I printed a test page, it was sent to the printer queue but not printed. State of the print job was "Pending: printer stopped". The printer was in its ready state on the printer itself. The printer properties says "Paused: unable to open USB device 'usb://Brother/HL-1440%20series': No such device." The printer does appear on the pull-down ports list in the properties window. When I select it there and go to the printer's window and activate "resume printing", the waiting document prints.

6.06 LTS (Dapper) starts with the printer visible in 'lpinfo -v' but it has the cycling problem -- randomly visible and invisible. The Add-Printer function doesn't detect the printer while it is invisible but does detect it when visible in lpinfo. However, even when detected, the add-printer doesn't actually add the printer after finishing the dialog. I tried 3 times.

Remember, I have a Brother HL-1440 not HL-1050, but the problem seems to be shared by both of these printers on a USB port.