[sane-devel] Printer Pipe Broken - Fixed

[Thomas H. George]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:27:55AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> My box is Debian Etch.  After the recent dist-upgrade xsane copy showed 
> only "new printer" and lpr for the command.  This works but I want to 
> print to a second printer attached to a Debian Sarge box on the LAN.
> 
> Both boxes use CUPS and from a console I can print to my printer with 
> the command lp -d hp foo and to the other printer with lp -d br foo.  If 
> I use  xsane/setup/copy to add printers  using the commands lp -d hp (or 
> simply lp as hp is the default printer) and lp -d br copy fails with a 
> broken pipe message.   I need to use the Brothers laser printer (lp -d 
> br) for large black and white print jobs.  How can I fix this?
> 
> Tom George

After this morning's dist-upgrade (June 27) the command lpr -P br worked
although multiple copies produced blank pages after the fourth copy.

Tom George
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