[clug] PLEASE HELP! I have angered the network printing gods!

David C cottrill.david at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 18:39:19 MDT 2015


I have a nearly identical setup and it defeated me.
Mine is Mint17.
I know that removing / reinstalling CUPS and all Brother packages doesn't
help.
What do you have in cups and system logs?
 On 3 Jul 2015 10:35, "Jessica Fryer" <jessicanumber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone I'm desperate for help. I've tried like two things and I'm all
> out of ideas.
>
> I've got a HP Pavilion 15 running Ubuntu 12.04
> I've got the crappy wireless router my ISP sent me since the old one needed
> replacing anyway.
> I've got a Brother HL-3170CDW from OfficeWorks.
>
> Everything was going swimmingly. Colour, duplex, a little trouble with
> really unusual fonts but I've gone through a few hundred pages, mostly b&w,
> in the few months I've had it.
>
> Yesterday I had two jobs. Print a few info leaflets for a demonstration and
> print a menu to make comments.
>
> I ran out of each colour at the same time, replaced them all, the job
> finished (with some errors toward the end that usually occur when I try to
> send through weird pictures or fonts, but still, they printed) and then
> NOTHING!
>
> I've re-installed the printer, power cycled the wireless, power cycled the
> printer and then re-connected it to the network from scratch (re-entered
> the password and everything), deleted the printer on the laptop and then
> re-found it and re-installed it, installed necessary updates, power cycled
> the laptop. The same test page has been in the queue for 15 hours.
>
> I'm using a driver called HL-3170CDW CUPS that came up during the wizard.
> The printer status message says deep sleep but the data light is on.
>
> Any ideas or places I can look for advice?
>
> Jessica
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