CUPS Processing - "Waiting for printer to become available."

Question

I'm attempting to get Brother HL-L2301-D printer running under Gentoo.

I've downloaded the RPM and installed it under Gentoo. The device is detected and I've set up a udev rule to make it available at /dev/usb/lp0, although it now appears there not as a symbolic link as it did yesterday but is still present at that location

# lsusb | grep -i brother
Bus 001 Device 100: ID 04f9:009a Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L2310D series
# l /dev/usb/lp0 
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 Apr 21 10:24 /dev/usb/lp0

I've tried adding the printer in two ways after reading this thread that suggested using the usb://Brother/HL-L2310D%20series?serial=### rather than usb://dev/usb/lp0...

# lpadmin -p Chompy -E -v usb://Brother/HL-L2310D%20series?serial=E78096L9N400161 -i /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd -L "Study"
# lpadmin -p Chompy2 -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P /usr/share/ppd/brother/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd

The printer is turned on and lights indicate its "Ready", both Chompy and Chompy2 (daughter chose the name, quite perceptive for 6yo!) are listed in the CUPS WebUI and yet if I try to print a test page to either I'm told...

Processing - "Waiting for printer to become available."

Checking with lstat

# lpstat -o "Chompy" -p -l
Chompy-22               root              1024   Tue 21 Apr 2020 10:25:17 BST
printer Chompy now printing Chompy-22.  enabled since Tue 21 Apr 2020 10:25:17 BST
    Waiting for printer to become available.

Same happens if I try using Chompy2.

Stumped as to what to try next, any suggestions would be gratefully received. I'm keen to get this working and then share it on the network.

Answer 1

I just had this happen today with a Canon MP480. I fixed it by deleting and re-adding the printer through the CUPs web GUI (i.e., http://localhost:631). It showed an option for a locally connected USB printer, which I chose.

screenshot of Add Printer screen showing local printer

Not sure why this made it start working, but I suspect it may happen when you plug the printer into a different USB port on the computer than when the printer was first installed in CUPS. Today, the web GUI gave me a connection string with an extra interface parameter:

usb://Canon/MP480%20series?serial=<serial_num>&interface=1

which may reflect the bInterfaceNumber value from lsusb -v (excerpt below):

  bNumConfigurations      1
    bConfigurationValue     1
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
        bInterval              11
      bInterfaceNumber        1

Answer 2

in my case, this helped:

ls /dev/usb/lp0 gives /dev/usb/lp0

In Ubuntu 16.04: System > Printer > Choose your Printer > Properties

Change address from /dev/us/lp0 to usb, then click Apply.