[NBLUG/talk] Printer gone wild

[droman at romansys.com]

Not a true fix, however I assume you have already stopped and restarted
CUPS ?  I had a problem a while back where CUPS out of no where,
seemingly, started picking a different tray to pull paper from.  I stopped
CUPS and restarted it, and all was back to normal.  I haven't had the
issue again so I haven't had the drive to look into why it happened.


Thanks,
   ---Dean.




> You should make a video and sell it. "Printers gone wild" ~goes back
> into the shadows~
>
> On 1/27/07, Mark Osborne <goldenirma at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Well....
>> Tried all the permutations in printer set up. Still tie-dyed out of
>> Linux..
>>
>> Re-installed the cartridges, set the properties to gery scale; black
>> cartridge...
>>
>>
>>
>> Stump the list time.....
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>> --- Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Mark Osborne wrote:
>> >
>> > >Hi folks,
>> > >Running a Dell P4 with Ubuntu Edgy.
>> > >HP 5610 worked fine until ink ran out on black cartridge. After
>> > >replacing, pages starts in black, and goes through entire rainbow
>> > until
>> > >it becomes unreadable by about the second page.
>> > >
>> > >If I plug in the USB cable to my work laptop (win XP) the printer
>> > works
>> > >fine.....
>> > >
>> > >HP is no help at all.
>> > >
>> > >Any ideas?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > Mark:
>> >
>> > I had a user at work who had a problem where everything they printed
>> > from an HP all-in-one (the psc1350, I think) came out green, but if
>> > they
>> > used the scanner as a copier, it came out black.  It turns out that
>> > there's a setting in the printer configs that tells the printer to
>> > use
>> > the color cartridge, rather than the black (grayscale) one.  Somehow
>> > his
>> > desktop was set to use the color cartridge.  We couldn't figure out
>> > why
>> > that would have been set that way, but maybe it switches over when
>> > the
>> > black runs out?  Or maybe it's haunted.
>> >
>> > I can't recall whether he had to change it in the basic printer
>> > configs
>> > or in OpenOffice, or both (OO is funny that way).  Obviously, I'd
>> > check
>> > the system-wide settings first, but check a general app like firefox
>> > and
>> > then an OpenOffice doc if that's what you use.
>> >
>> > Obviously, this isn't a perfect answer, but perhaps a clue...  Good
>> > luck!
>> >
>> > -dave.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dave Sisley
>> > dsisley at sonic.net
>> > roth-sisley.net
>> >
>> >
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