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hplip package

  1. Bug #692568
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Comment 0 for bug 692568

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Printer shouldn't be paused after backend failed

Binary package hint: cups

When printing fails for some reason ("backend failed" message), printer is paused, and won't resume automatically, even after a reboot. This is silly because there's no notice about that in the print dialog nor in the print queue: you have to go to System->Administration->Printing, and be very clever to understand how to re-enable the printer.

In most cases, the fact that something failed doesn't mean other documents won't print, and generally users will figure the error better by themselves than with a paused printer.

This is in Lucid 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.3 (not sure in Maverick).