On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is rather odd. For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had >> to delete my printers then add them back again. It would not print until I >> did so. > > I have to do that every time I plug my printer in... > > I print so infrequently, every time I want to print I turn the printer > on and plug it into my PC, and then spend 25 minutes trying to make it > work with CUPS again.
Paul, I suspect you've got a udev configuration problem. Your printer *should* get some kind of persistent symlink pointing to its device node, probably derived from its serial number. If that isn't working properly, fixing it should fix your recurring CUPS issues. If udev is behaving properly, then perhaps CUPS is latching on to something more transient. -- :wq
