Printers not working.

I have two printers attached to SuSE 10.3 :HP Deskjet 6540 and Brother
MFC210c.
These have both been working, but the HP had to be restarted from time
to time, and I have been looking around to find the problem. 
Unfortunately, (the newbie issue) neither printer works at all now!

I would appreciate some clues on this.

Initially, both printers show as idle (accepting jobs) in the KDE
Control Center.  When sent a job, this changes to processing (accepting
jobs) and this seems fine, although nothing further happens.  I have
tried to send a test page from localhost 631 and Yast without effect. 
I have deleted the printer and added it again, but end up with the same
problem.

The printers are connected properly, since I can run them under XP,
whick is dual booted with SuSE.

Maybe it is something within CUPS, but I don't know much about it.

Any Ideas?


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Dick Bannister wrote:

> 
> I have two printers attached to SuSE 10.3 :HP Deskjet 6540 and Brother
> MFC210c.
> These have both been working, but the HP had to be restarted from time
> to time, and I have been looking around to find the problem.
> Unfortunately, (the newbie issue) neither printer works at all now!
> 
> I would appreciate some clues on this.
> 
> Initially, both printers show as idle (accepting jobs) in the KDE
> Control Center.  When sent a job, this changes to processing (accepting
> jobs) and this seems fine, although nothing further happens.  I have
> tried to send a test page from localhost 631 and Yast without effect.
> I have deleted the printer and added it again, but end up with the same
> problem.
> 
> The printers are connected properly, since I can run them under XP,
> whick is dual booted with SuSE.
> 
> Maybe it is something within CUPS, but I don't know much about it.
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> 
Did you restart the printers in CUPS? If not log into CUPS as the Admin or
Root and look at the printers, If they are red restart them. That has
happened to me several times.
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Russ