printer problems

[Dazed_75]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> As of today my old workhorse Canon BJ210 stopped printing with an error
> message "BJ210 Printer 'BJ210' may not be connected". It doesn't appear
> to be OS related as it happens in Ubuntu and Debian. Contradicting that

You probably already did this but try the simplest fix first.
Assuming a USB connection, unplug and replug the USB connection.  That
seems to solve many more situations than one should expect.


-- 
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only
animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and
what they ought to be.
  - William Hazlitt