Re: CUPS sudden refuses to print after previously working fine - SOLVED

On 01 Mar 2020, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2020, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:28:52AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I have a networked Brother-HL5350DN printer which has worked fine
> > > with CUPS for over a year. Two days ago it suddenly refused to
> > > print on my desktop running -current I reconfigured the printer
> > > several times without effect.


Well, I finally "solved" the problem by the simple expedient of just
deleting the printer in Cups and reinstalling it from scratch. It
then worked perfectly without doing anything else. Here is the
resulting /etc/cups/printers.conf:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v2.3.1
# Written by cupsd on 2020-03-02 09:54
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
NextPrinterId 3
<DefaultPrinter Brother_HL-5350DN_series>
PrinterId 2
UUID urn:uuid:795e4424-0458-3f6d-413a-1669af7e997e
Info Brother HL-5350DN series
Location
MakeModel Brother HL-5350DN BR-Script3
DeviceURI lpd://brother/BINARY_P1
State Idle
StateTime 1583142812
ConfigTime 1583142501
Type 8433748
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
Attribute marker-colors \#000000,#000000,#000000
Attribute marker-levels -1,-1,54
Attribute marker-names Black Toner Cartridge,Black Toner Cartridge,Drum Unit
Attribute marker-types toner,toner,opc
Attribute marker-change-time 1583142812
</DefaultPrinter>
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