On Jan 24, 2019, at 21:42, Kevin W Stratton via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

I have had this problem with a couple of older distributions of linux.  The problem now does not occur with the same network printer that I have had for a long time.  I have a single user setup, so I do not know if is relevant information. Perhaps one machine on the network has a buggy version of CUPS?

This is entirely possible. Since you mentioned it, this particular box is running ubuntu 14.04, which is quite old at this point. It didn’t even occur to me to check this until you mentioned it

Doing a quick google search I found:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202022

pypi suggests considering changing the ErrorPolicy for a similar problem.  I have never done this, so good luck.


It turns out this option isn’t even available in the version of CUPS i’m running.

Looks like i’ll be trying to upgrade my ubuntu box this weekend and crossing my fingers that it solves the CUPS problems and doesn’t break anything else. 

Thanks!
 - brad




On 1/24/19 6:17 PM, Aljerin Butler,Jr. via WLUG wrote:
Try my website here (especially HPLIP) at the compatibility links.

Al Butler

On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 11:12:51 PM EST, Krichevsky, Nicholas Jacob via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:


I have an HP Officejet 8600 that only gets "paused" if I unplug it, in my testing. YMMV

From: Bradley Noyes via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:07:29 AM
To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion
Cc: Bradley Noyes
Subject: [WLUG] struggling w/ reliable printers on CUPS in small office
 
WLug-gers,

tl;dr: Can someone recommend a printer (or printer brand) that is reliable for printing via CUPS?

I’m struggling w/ printers in a small office and i've struggled to get any kind of guidance on-line. The volume of pages printed at the office is probably around 100 pages a day and there are 4 printers — all HPs and all consumer grade — each printer has its purpose, e.g. there's an 11x17 printer, one color laser, one BW laster, one color inkjet. The office is all iMACs, which connect to a Linux CUPS server. The iMacs were networking directly w/ the printers, but i added the CUPS server to try to mitigate the poor reliability with only marginal results. Routinely printers become “paused” in CUPS so i need to go in and ‘unpause’ them, also some printers just fall of the network entirely. Inevitably the only printer that works most of the time is the ink-jet which is a lot more expensive to re-fill.

I’m looking for a reliable solution. If anyone has a recomendation that’d be great!

Thanks,
 — Brad
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