Resetting your PENTA reports printer
Issue/Symptom/Question
Can you please reset the printer.
My printer is not working.
Applies To
Penta printing
Linux print queue
Resolution/Fix/Answer
To check and/or fix a printer
- Login as root on the linux server
- At the command line type lpstat -t
- In the following example, you see a printer queue called 'checks'. You can see that it is idle and enabled.
DBPROD> lpstat -t
scheduler is running
no system default destination
device for checks: socket://192.168.41.33:9100
checks accepting requests since Fri 14 Dec 2018 12:34:40 PM CST
printer checks is idle. enabled since Fri 14 Dec 2018 12:34:40 PM CST
- If you see that the printer is disabled and/or at the bottom of the output above, you see pending print jobs, use the following command to enable the printer:
- cupsenable <queue name>
- i.e. cupsenable checks
- cupsenable <queue name>
- If the print jobs do not start printing, you will have to delete the print jobs that are sitting in the queue:
- cancel -a <queue name>
- i.e. cancel -a checks
- cancel -a <queue name>