Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds [resolved]

[Michael Hennebry]

Thanks to all who responded.
This is the one that gave me an idea that worked:

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Paul Johnson wrote:

> If you have that same problem I do, you will know it if you do
> system-config-printer and say you want a new printer, and it will list
> several devices, all of which are related to your usb plugged in
> printer.  Before the new system-config-printer came out, I used to see
> like
>
> /dev/usb0
> /dev/hal-hp1300
> /dev/lp0
>
> all of which seemed to point at the same device, and it was never
> consistent which one I was supposed to use.

Using CUPS to remove the printer and add it again did the trick.

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