Help please. I'm a new Ubuntu user, and I'm having a recurrent problem with my printer. It's chronically not enabled. I can't print. When I look under system settings > printers, I see my printer, but it's got the paused sign (||) showing. I right click and "enabled" is not checked. I click enabled and get the check box, but moments later, it's paused again. I've tried faffing about properties > policies, but that doesn't help.
Any ideas? I'm happy to share some diagnostics if anyone can tell me what's relevant.
Thanks in advance.
12 Answers
Try the following:
Get your printer usb device id with lsusb command in shell
Open /etc/default/tlp with any text editor under sudo
Uncomment line 178 and paste your printer usb device id, and the line should look like:
USB_BLACKLIST="04e8:3292"This will prevent printer from begin auto-suspended
had to install Smart Panel on Ubuntu 16.04 Mate in order to print - without Smart Panel printing with ML-1640 was impossible
