cups problems

[Micah]

David Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 11:47, John Nielsen wrote:
> 
>> You have the permissions fixed, which was half the solution for me
>> when I made the upgrade. The other half was to abandon cups' usb
>> back-end for the time being, since it doesn't work (as well as it
>> used to). The workaround suggested in an earlier thread on this
>> subject was to stop cups and manually edit the printers.conf file (in
>> /usr/local/etc/cups), replacing the "usb:" portion of the printer URI
>> with "file:". This worked for me and several others, although I
>> remember posts that it did not work for some.
> 
> It works! Thank you!
> 
> There is one oddity though. The printer "ready" light flashes as normal, 
> but then the "attention" light flashes. Pressing the "go" button then 
> prints out the job. According to the printer manual, this means 
> either "manual feed" or "continuation error". I suspect that somehow 
> manual feed is getting sent to the printer (even though it isn't set in 
> cups printer options). A minor annoyance, but one I can live with.

I've had this problem when using /dev/ulpt instead of /dev/unlpt. Might 
be worth a try if you haven't yet.

HTH,
Micah