[K12OSN] Printers on thin clients problem

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Mon Jan 31 17:34:38 UTC 2005


Shawn,
I've had the same issue...running 4.1.1
I gave the librarian access and a 5 min session in how to restart the 
printer from the cups web admin page.

--Huck

Shawn Powers wrote:

> I am running 4.0.1, with about 110 thin clients in our district.  
> Local printing is working great (we're sharing samsung 1740 laser 
> printers) -- but every few days, the printers stop working.  Sometimes 
> there is an error page that prints out, sometimes not.   It always 
> happens in the middle of the school day, and although rebooting the 
> thin client solves the problem, it's not really feasible at any given 
> time to do so.  This is especially true since it's usually the 
> classroom across the hall trying to print, since we have to share 
> printers among classrooms.  Is there a known issue with local 
> printing?  Anyone have any ideas about how to debug the problem?  Any 
> chance upgrading to 4.2 would help?




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