[X4U] Re: Printer on G5

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Tue Nov 30 11:07:55 PST 2004


Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:

>I try to install a Brother 1470N printer driver on my G5.  I can get ot
>so far that I can select it in the print window.  But then nothing
>comes out of the printer.  I've no problems with my other 3 Macs and
>that printer.
>I downloaded the latest driver.  In the Printer list, the status is
>"Stopped" and when I select "Start Jobs it flashes for a fraction of a
>second, but nothing will work.
>Any idea?
>
>Paul Moortgat

hi paul,

the cups driver is here:

<http://solutions.brother.com/Common_Download/en_us/macosxlaser/printerindex10.3.html>

the best way is to flush your printers configuration and start from scratch:

	sudo rm -f /etc/cups/printers.conf
	sudo rm -Rf /etc/cups/ppd/*

then restart cups:

	sudo killall -HUP cupsd

now set up your printer again. what we do in large user environments 
is we flush, redo all printer config, then "push" out the 
/etc/cups/printers.conf file and the /etc/cups/ppd folder then we 
restart cups daemon (cupsd). pretty nifty.

:)
don

don montalvo, nyc


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