I thought so as well but a simple reboot or dis/re-connect would clear that, but I have to restart the printer. Only other option is is the driver and the printer needs to forget the borked command On 6/5/10, Eric Shubert wrote: > I wonder if it's perhaps the computers they're attached to that become > 'confused'. ;) > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > Stephen wrote: >> We have about 24 of these at our office for desk printers. Its a nice >> printer for black and white. only issue once in a while they get >> confused and you need to just power them down and unplug the USB. >> power on then reconnect and life is good. across all the printers we >> have it only happens once a month and they run 24/7 usually. If they >> were turned off on a regular basis I'm guessing we would never see >> this. >> >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Alan Dayley >> wrote: >>> Our five(?) year old Canon i960 inkjet printer had finally gummed up >>> so bad we have given up on it. So we went printer shopping this >>> evening. >>> >>> We realized we rarely print in color and laser is so much cheaper per >>> page. Fry's had the Brother HL-2140 laser printer for $59. It's a >>> basic printer with three LEDs, one button and USB only interface >>> (http://www.frys.com/product/5533900). Bought one, brought it home, >>> inserted the toner cartridge, printed a self-test page and went >>> looking for Linux configuration information. >>> >>> The page at http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2140 >>> was very informative. The instructions in the last comment of that >>> page are reproduced here: >>> >>> 1) Plug in the printer to the computer. Ignore all the prompts, hit >>> cancel, etc. >>> 2) Download the LPR and CUPS deb files from this link (or search for >>> them on the site): >>> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#HL-2140 >>> 3) sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model >>> 4) sudo dpkg -i --force-all --force-architecture [the two debs you >>> downloaded] >>> THE FORCE SWITCHES ARE VITAL FOR 64 BIT MACHINES! >>> 5)Profit. The printer should work and show up as "HL2140". >>> >>> I was installing on a 32-bit Kubuntu 9.04 system. I did NOT use the >>> "--force-all --force-architecture" options in step 4 above. I DID get >>> great results with the printer working right away! >>> >>> Slick and smooth. >>> >>> Then, I used the printer configuration application to click a few >>> check boxes so that the printer is shared on the local network. Then >>> I grabbed my wife's MacBook running OS X 10.something, told it to find >>> a new network printer, it found the laser printer and I from her >>> laptop I printed wireless-to-wired-to-LinuxDesktop-to-HL-2140. >>> >>> Slick and smooth. Easy configuration and my wife is happy. I'm happy! >>> >>> Alan >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss