On Tue 31 Jan 2017 at 23:06:53 +0100, r...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Well I sure haven't changed anything other than upgrade packages. Now if > some other package interferes with cupsd I don't know. I know I spent some > days fighting :631 4-5 months ago to get it (the printer) to work. Cups > worked fine then. I have not tried any other printer since. > > Obviously there seem to be other people elsewhere that refer to this > problem. Losing contact with cups after a stretch upgrade. The only > solution I found I listed but either I don't understand the commands or it > is not working for me. > > I even created a new user, run firefox stock 1st time no plugins ... and > nothing. Unreachable it says. No instructions what so ever. Even sudo > firefox didn't reach. NADA! > > I think it is ridiculous after so many months to be holding a Win7 partition > to be able to print stuff and it is not the printer problem anymore as a > previous generic pc of similar specs printed just fine with Jessie. This > one is a stock DELL with no sign of hardware incompatibility. Again, I am > on LXDE Stretch, AMD64, and it is a USB printer, no network stuff. The > printer settings gui identified the correct printer and model. No way to > drive it.
Please post the output of /usr/sbin/lpinfo -l -v in your next mail here. -- Brian.
