Enable printer wierdness ??

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:37 -0500, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> This is a little complex to follow.  It's taken me two weeks to define
> the problem without finding a solution.  Basically, my HP
> psc_1310_series printer keeps becoming un-enabled and removed as
> default.  Here is what happens:
> 
> I login, check my printer_config settings and my HP psc_1310_series
> printer is check marked as enabled.  Open a word processing or text
> editing program such as Open Office Writer, AbiWord, emacs or gedit and
> try and print a test page.  The test page is put in the queue but no
> printing.  I again check my printer_config; my HP psc_1310_series
> printer is no longer enabled.  If I re-checkmark the enabled box and
> 'Apply', the printer immediately prints everything in the queue even if
> I have cancelled all the outstanding jobs.
The fact that you indicate that you are chek marking a printer as
enabled leads me to believe you are not using the cups web page to
configure your printers. Is that true? If so that is a mistake. Use the
web interface ans maybe your troubles will disappear.
> 
> Everything continues to print fine in every program until I log out and
> in again.  The cycle continues with the printer_config being marked as
> enabled until I call a new test print job.
> 
> I am baffled.
> 
> -- 
> Regards Bill
> 
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