Common Linux problems
Problem |
| Possible Cause and Solution |
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The machine does not | • | Check if the printer driver is installed in |
| your system. Open Unified Driver | |
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| configurator and switch to the Printers |
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| tab in Printers configuration window to |
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| look at the list of available printers. Make |
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| sure that your machine is displayed on |
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| the list. If not, please, invoke Add new |
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| printer wizard to set up your device. |
| • | Check if the printer is started. Open |
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| Printers configuration and select your |
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| machine on the printers list. Look at the |
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| description in the Selected printer pane. |
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| If its status contains “(stopped)” string, |
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| please, press the OK button. After that |
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| normal operation of the printer should be |
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| restored. The “stopped” status might be |
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| activated when some problems in |
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| printing occurred. For instance, this |
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| could be an attempt to print document |
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| when port is claimed by a scanning |
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| application. |
| • | Check if the port is not busy. Since |
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| functional components of MFP (printer |
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| and scanner) share the same I/O |
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| interface (port), the situation of |
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| simultaneous access of different |
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| “consumer” application to the same port |
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| is possible. To avoid possible conflicts, |
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| only one of them at a time is allowed to |
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| gain control over the device. The other |
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| “consumer” will encounter “device busy” |
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| response. You should open ports |
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| configuration and select the port |
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| assigned to your printer. In the Selected |
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| port pane you can see if the port is |
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| occupied by some other application. If |
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| this is the case, you should wait for |
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| completion of the current job or should |
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| press Release port button, if you are |
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| sure that the present owner is not |
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| functioning properly. |
| • | Check if your application has special |
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| print option such as |
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| specified in the command line parameter |
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| then remove it to print properly. For |
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| Gimp |
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| printer” and edit command line |
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| parameter in the command item. |
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Problem |
| Possible Cause and Solution |
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The machine does not | • | Check if your machine is attached to |
appear on the |
| your computer. Make sure that it is |
scanners list |
| connected properly via the USB port and |
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| is turned on. |
| • | Check if the scanner driver for your |
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| machine is installed in your system. |
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| Open Unified Driver configurator, switch |
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| to Scanners configuration, then press |
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| Drivers. Make sure that driver with a |
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| name corresponding to your machine's |
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| name is listed in the window. Check if |
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| the port is not busy. Since functional |
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| components of MFP (printer and |
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| scanner) share the same I/O interface |
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| (port), the situation of simultaneous |
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| access of different “consumer” |
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| application to the same port is possible. |
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| To avoid possible conflicts, only one of |
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| them at a time is allowed to gain control |
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| over the device. The other “consumer” |
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| will encounter “device busy” response. |
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| This can usually happen while starting |
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| scan procedure, and appropriate |
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| message box appears. |
| • | To identify the source of the problem, |
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| you should open ports configuration and |
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| select the port assigned to your scanner. |
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| port's symbol /dev/mfp0 corresponds to |
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| LP:0 designation displayed in the |
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| scanners’ options, /dev/mfp1 relates to |
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| LP:1 and so on. USB ports start at /dev/ |
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| mfp4, so scanner on USB:0 relates to / |
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| dev/mfp4 respectively and so forth |
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| sequentially. In the Selected port pane |
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| you can see if the port is occupied by |
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| some other application. If this is the |
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| case, you should wait for completion of |
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| the current job or should press Release |
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| port button, if you are sure that the |
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| present port's owner is not functioning |
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| properly. |
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