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My printer used to work very well with CUPS and the named driver. Since a while, it often shows the German equivalent of

Waiting for the printer to become available

(original: "Warte darauf dass der Drucker verfügbar wird") whenever I try to print something, even though the printer should be available.

  • OS: Arch Linux x86_64
  • DE: Plasma 5.20.3
  • Printer: HP LaserJet P1102 Devicehunt with Vendor ID
  • Driver: Foomatic/foo2zjs-z2 (recommended)

The problem is well known and seems to be independent of the specific printer model, but the usual solution does not work for me. I've added the rule with no effect.

$ lsusb                                                                                                    
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 03f0:002a HP, Inc LaserJet P1102

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-usbprinter.rules
ATTR{idVendor}=="03F0", ATTR{idProduct}=="002A", MODE:="0660", GROUP:="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}:="yes"

I've also tried different USB ports and restarted CUPS (sudo systemctl restart cups.service), my desktop and my printer several times as well as reinstalling CUPS and foo2zjs-z2 (from AUR). Whenever I clear the printing queue and try to print something, the waiting message appears quickly. Trying to print the test page is not different.

Weird side effect: The number of pages in the top entry in the printing queue gets incremented every time I restart cups (e.g. shows 5, despite the document only having 1 page, since I've restarted CUPS 4 times after queueing the job).

I'd appreciate any help.

Turtle10000
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Arch had an update that changed the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf by providing a file at that position called cupsd.conf.pacnew.

I replaced cupsd.conf with the "pacnew" file, restarted cups and my printers were running again...

kanehekili
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