I'm sure it's not your printer.  You print queue is paused, and it needs to be resumed so that it will send print jobs to your printer again. Brian Cluff On 9/11/19 4:29 PM, Michael wrote: > really? what did you clean and what with? > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 7:28 PM Harold Hartley > wrote: > > I remember having the same problem at one time. Found out it was > my printer that had the problem. Found my ink cartridge wasn’t > working and ended up cleaning it and put it in and restarted my > printer and worked fine. > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019, at 16:12, Brian Cluff wrote: >> OK.. you need to resume your print queue. Until you do all the >> print queue will do will queue up jobs, but they will never >> print. Once the print queue is resumed anything that is in the >> queue will start to print. >> >> I can't remember which desktop you are running, but on KDE you >> can pause/resume the queue by clicking on the list double bar or >> triangle on the right side of the name of the printer when you >> click the little printer icon in the system tray. Wherever it is, >> it must be easily clickable, because you probably accidentally >> clicked it at some point. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> On 9/11/19 10:28 AM, Michael wrote: >> > CUPS says the printer is paused >> > >> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:38 PM Brian Cluff > > wrote: >> >>  Go to this URL and click on the name of the printer that >> isn't printing and look to see if there is an error showing. I've >> found that CUPS is VERY good at telling you about what is wrong. >> >> http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/ >> >> >> >>  Brian Cluff >> >> >> >> On 9/11/19 5:40 AM, Michael wrote: >> >>> it does scan though. any ideas why this would be the case? >> >>> >> >>>  -- >> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >>> >> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >>  PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> >>  To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> > >> >  -- >> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- >   Harold Hartley >   17632 N. 5th place > Phoenix, AZ 85022 > wheelie207@ownmail.net > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss