CUPS "Unable to add document to print job"

Jim binarynut at comcast.net
Thu Sep 6 17:04:21 UTC 2012


On 09/06/2012 07:50 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> My network printer - a Samsung CLP-325W - has stopped working
> from my Fedora-17/KDE laptop.
> I've tried both the Samsung Linux Unified Printer Driver,
> and the foo21pdl driver.
> In both cases I get the error
> -------------------------------
> E [06/Sep/2012:12:39:38 +0100] [Job 37] Unable to add
> document to print job
> -------------------------------
> in /var/log/cups/error_log .
>
> The printer is seen by CUPS.
>
> I've googled for this, and it seems a common problem;
> but I haven't seen any mention of what the error means,
> or what one can do about it.
>
> The printer is working fine, since I have Windows XP on this
> laptop,
> and have no problem printing from that.
>
> I wonder if anyone else has encountered this problem,
> or can suggest how to resolve it?
>
Check SeLinux first for a message I had about Ten Selinux errors I had 
to fix when I installed a CLX3175FN
using the CLX3170 driver from Samsung.


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