On 2/10/2010 9:15 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:37:28 -0600 CentOS mailing list<centos@centos.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>> In our computer lab, there are 6 Centos 5.4 workstations. There is an
>> HP printer with jet direct card. It often works.
>>
>> But sometimes users come and get me saying the printer is broken, but
>> it is actually working fine for *most* of the workstations.
>>
>> On the troubled system, I run system-config-printer and I check the
>> printer in question (under properties) and I see the printer has been
>> disabled. I mean, the box by the word Enabled is empty.
>>
>> After I manually (use lprm) remove the print jobs, and set the printer
>> to Enabled, then the print queue will start working again.
>>
>> I've checked the files in /var/log/cups and there's nothing evident.
>> error_log has nothing.
>>
>> We have had the problem during the year (that others have reported in
>> this list). When trying to print some pdf files from Evince, the
>> symptom of the problem is that the pdf files don't print. They seem to
>> "clog" the printer. When that happens, I have seen the Enabled box
>> come unchecked in the printer configurator. However, the most recent
>> problems are not associated with the use of Evince.
>>
> Unless you have a proper print filter for them (on the Linux system!),
> PDF files cannot be printed.
>
>
>> I would really appreciate some tips about how to bugshoot this problem.
>>
>> pj
>>
>> ps. The Cups server is running on the system in question, lpq shows
>> lots of print jobs waiting.
>>
> Wondering if the printer *by itself* can manage handling connections
> for a number of workstations and arbitrating jobs. Maybe you need a
> Linux print server to manage the print queue and feed jobs to the
> printer one at a time. It seems like some of the workstations are
> getting a refused connection and thinking the printer is 'dead' (and
> thus disabling it), when it is merely too busy to respond. A proper
> linux print server would queue up the job and be ready for additional
> connections.
>
>
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I have to agree with Robert here. Instead of running a separate server
on each box run a central cups server on one machine and have it take
care of everything. I bet since all of the machines are their own
servers they printer can't keep up and the individual machines are
timing out...:)
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