[GRLUG] issue with cups

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Feb 20 07:08:48 EST 2012


On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 21:29 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> Cups in Fedora 15 keeps giving me this error message, even though the
> printer works fine from Windows:
> "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed; Printer 'MFC6890CDW' is out of at
> least one marker supply."
> I've tried restarting the printer, restarting cups, and rebooting the
> computer and I can't get cups to print to this printer. I've replaced
> all three color inks and the black ink show half full. I've also plugged
> each of the inks in and out several times
> Any suggestions?

Just add the printer to CUPS to use a socket conenction and see if it
works.

Relying on DNSSD is iffy.

I use CUPS to drive a number of MFC...CDW devices and they have been
pretty much trouble-free.
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