I have a Canon LBP3000 laser printer connected to the computer, running F32, KDE Plasma.
It won’t print anything. I don’t really know what to look for to fix this, where to check, nothing, my understanding of printing under Fedora and Linux in general is far beyond my knowledge and understanding.
I guess some CUPS service is responsible for printing.
Under localhost:631/printers/LBP3000?which_jobs=all all jobs, so far it has only been test pages, are stuck at "Sending data to printer."
Wasn’t solved though. So no harm done. Discourse by design does not close topics until they’ve been solved.
In general, we’d prefer that you flag the topic to ask a mod to close it if it’s old instead of making a remark of this type, which can considered snide/rude.
Yes, I’ve had noticed but based on research in another TOPIC and its possible benefit for this one I’ve had revived it and preventing future questions about it.
In General, it is not a bad habit to revive topics if after a certain time without an answer, is considered or is thought to have a solution to it, especially preventing possible future questions, is considered or is thought to have a replay to it, and keeping in mind the number of questions about installation/ configuration problems on the LBPXXXX can be beneficial…
OK, thanks for reviving this topic. However, the above mentioned does not solve the problem…
Could it be, that my printer is connected to a “wrong” USB port? Any ideas how to check that, apart from pulling out all the cables and going step by step through the ports?
EDIT: Even after trying to print something
captstatusui -P LBP3000
window is empty. There should be some information about what’s going on with the printer, right?
Don’t really know how to explain, so I’ll use simple words. I did a lot of Google searches & carefully went through all outputs related to printers in the Terminal.
captstatusui -P LBP3000
was giving me a “Communication Error”. Printer was “installed as an USB device”, in CUPS the connection was
usb://Canon/LBP3000?serial=0000A18108DW
I changed that to
ccp://localhost:59787
Did
sudo systemctl restart ccpd.service
And it’s working now!
captstatusui -P LBP3000
also reports “Ready to Print”.
Hope it helps someone else. Best regards and thank you all for all the efforts!