Re: Gnome printing problem, please help.

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

This isn't really a GNOME question.

>I have just installed 35 computers, all in my own office.
>Previously was Win2000, since having the RedHat linux 7.2 pro, I decided to 
>migrate everything to linux/gnome after 1 week's research.
>The only problem I face now is:
>Printing.
>I only have 6 HP Laser printer ranged from 5L to 1100. Share printing is a 
>important.
>The application used: abiword 0.99.5.
>The actual situation:
>When other users send for printing, it printed nicely at the beginning, but 
>after a while, the printer blinks and stop printing. I got to go into 
>Printer Configuration section to restart lpd for it to continue. I cannot 
>find anything about the print queue so that I can delete the documents. When 
>I am not around, I ask the users to reboot the printer-attached computer and 
>it prints again, but just for few pages, than stop.

"lpc status all" doesn't show anything?

Are you using LPRng?

Is the printer attached via a parralell cable?  Does /var/log/spooler say 
anything?

How about dmesg chattering about lp0 or lp1?