On 22:05 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote: > > 3 PCs or 3 printers?
Three different pcs, each with a hp printer directly connected to it via a usb cable using cups printing. Note that cups has always been flakey for me. So I have not infrequently had to reinstall the printer driver to get it working over the years. I have used debian since 2002 or so. Before that redhat 7.3. My guess about usb is only that, a guess . I reverted at home to the parport connection today in frustration. It may simply be accidentally that I switched to the usb version when I thought I might get greater throughput and faster printing than with the 'older' parport approach. My family is up in arms about this printing so I will need to explore this idea over the next week or so. So today after the switch my computer prints, but that is not a victory. Let me see if it keeps on printing tomorrow etc. The usb connection method printed the first day also, it just forgets how to in a day or so... I will also check to see if it is a problem caused by rebooting, Dad keeps rebooting his machine, while I do not reboot nor at work. > > *Anything* physically, literally common? Even something that seems > minor and inconsequential? > > Maybe going through a hub? Especially an un-powered or cheap hub. nope. direct usb connect. > > If there's nothing there, and it really does consistently work > though the parport, then next step is to go to a cups-dedicated > list. yeah i guess so. but googling i find random notes that sound similar all over the web. I have always had a love hate thing with cups. Nice when it works, but so finicky and difficult when it doesn't. Blame apple :). > Appreciate that. > Keep up the good work! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315032845.ge4...@earthlink.net
