
Jason White wrote:
Russell Coker<russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
I have a workstation with a Brother_MFC-7362N printer running with CUPS. It was working fine running Debian/Squeeze on i386 but now that I've replaced it with Debian/Wheezy on amd64 it's not working.
It says that everything works and claims that jobs are printed but nothing comes out of the printer. Is the printer still where the OS thinks it is ? I am wondering whether this is essentially an OS issue at all; to put it politely' the stability of USB networks, seems highly contingent on circumstance' ....... they are very fragile !. I had the same experience that Jason reported below. A cheap Epson Artisan 725 which frequently had Russell's problem (above) on USB; but which problem seems to have 'largely' gone away, after connecting via a spare Ethernet port on my router. I say 'largely'; because occasionally its IP address seems to change as a result of me adding and subtracting Ethernet cables.So I have just stuck an identical printer on five near by IP addresses,so that on the rare occasion when it doesn't work I consult the printer to see where it thinks it is and use a printer at that address instead. ...............snip
I am not experiencing this issue anymore as I bought an Ethernet switch and connected the printer to it via its Ethernet interface. The result is much faster data transfer to the printer, and I had other motivations for buying the switch anyway.
regards Rohan McLeod