Printer giving up silently since upgrade

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Check the usual suspects first? Ink Supply, paper jam, lack of paper,
> parallel/USB plugged firmly in? Blinking lights on the printer usually
> indicates a printer problem begging to become fixed. Or, it doesn't
> understand what to do with the file sent to it. It suffers. :) Ric

You probably have already checked this:

What do the LED indications mean:

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/BSC/public/eu/gb/en/faq/faq/000000/000100/000070/faq000170_007.html?reg=eu&c=gb&lang=en&prod=hl5250dn_all&Cat=11

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu