Printer giving up silently since upgrade

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Ric" == Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> writes:

    Ric> On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 10:19 -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: 
    >> I upgraded my Desktop to 10.10 from 10.04 last week, and now I'm having
    >> trouble printing some of my files.  One file in particular just causes
    >> the printer to turn on all its lights and sit there.   I have looked at
    >> syslog, messages, and /var/log/cups/*, and there don't seem to be any
    >> error messages.
    >> 
    >> The printer is a Brother HL5250DN.

    Ric> Check the usual suspects first? Ink Supply, paper jam, lack of paper,
    Ric> parallel/USB plugged firmly in? Blinking lights on the printer usually
    Ric> indicates a printer problem begging to become fixed. 

None of those ideas explains why 10.10 is printing other files fine, or
why 10.04 prints this one (on the same printer, with the same toner,
paper, and cable) and 10.10 doesn't.

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