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    12.04 printer not working

    Just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and most of my stuff still works, quite a nicely in fact. But not the printer - whenever I try to print to my Epson C48 the job shows up as stopped.
    Any ideas?
    I have AMD Ryzen 5 3400G on a Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO motherboard, 16GB DDR4 3600mhz RAM. Two WD Blue SN550 1TB SSDs in M.2 slots. First SSD has two partitions, 500 Gb Windows 10 on one, Ubuntu 22.04 on other, second drive (NTFS) used as storage.

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    Re: 12.04 printer not working

    You could take a look at printer settings. The best way I've found is to restore the printer app from Gnome 2. In a terminal

    Code:
     sudo system-config-printer
    If you get a 'not found' message you may have to install it via the Software Center or Synaptic if you've installed that. Right-click Epson C48, left-click properties. Look at each of the items on the left and see if anything looks unusual. Policies -> State make sure 'enabled', 'accepting jobs' and 'shared' -- make sure they're all checked.

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    Re: 12.04 printer not working

    Thanks.
    I checked and the printer wasn'#t enabled - so I enabled it and restarted the computer and it still doesn't print! Everything looks okay in Printer proerties, the things you mentioned are set as you said.
    I have AMD Ryzen 5 3400G on a Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO motherboard, 16GB DDR4 3600mhz RAM. Two WD Blue SN550 1TB SSDs in M.2 slots. First SSD has two partitions, 500 Gb Windows 10 on one, Ubuntu 22.04 on other, second drive (NTFS) used as storage.

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    Re: 12.04 printer not working

    Try using a different printer driver. Whenever my printer messes up, it's usually this.

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    Smile Re: 12.04 printer not working

    That's fixed it!
    I have AMD Ryzen 5 3400G on a Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO motherboard, 16GB DDR4 3600mhz RAM. Two WD Blue SN550 1TB SSDs in M.2 slots. First SSD has two partitions, 500 Gb Windows 10 on one, Ubuntu 22.04 on other, second drive (NTFS) used as storage.

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    Re: 12.04 printer not working

    Hi. I had the same problem. After an upgrade my HP C4580 stopped working. My problem was that the printer was not enabled and as soon as I enabled it my pending jobs started to print.

    Thanks for the info, it really helped.

    Stu

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    Re: 12.04 printer not working

    I had the same problem and this post helped me find what i was overlooking. Thanks everyone

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    Re: 12.04 printer not working

    Yeah, I used the printer config command "sudo system-config-printer" then selected the correct driver for my printer. Now it works fine.
    For some reason the upgrade to 12.04 had changed the printer driver to another model.

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