How to troubleshoot inconsistent printer problems?
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When I was testing printing at work before we starting using some Trisquel laptops, everything seemed to work fine, but after using the laptops for some time there appear to be some problems with printing. Printing from Abrowser didn't work the very first time I tried it, but the second time I tried it worked. All times I've tried since then it has not worked. Printing to PDF first and then printing from Atril seems to be more reliable, but only the first several pages print, so I have to re-print with the already-printed pages removed.
When I go to System > Administration > Printers it says "There are no printers configured yet.", even though Atril and Abrowser can both see the printer.
So far I have not seen any tracker in Trisquel that shows the status of print jobs. Is there supposed to be something that shows this status?
Does anyone have any advice on how to troubleshoot this without wasting too much paper/ink?
(This is a Brother HL-L2390DW, at my workplace, not the HL-L2420DW at my house (which doesn't show up at all by default and is still on my to-do list to troubleshoot).)
I suppose the fact that the printer is not called specifically by a printer server (CUPS) is what could be the main issue.
Now, on the compatibility side of things I don't have good experience with Brother but IIRC I might have seen that there are some models that work just fine with free drivers.
You may try install the printer via the web browser, localhost:631 or via the Printer application in Control Center or Settings depending on your DE, about testing printing I find enough to print blank pages from LibreOffice Writer, some text editors might print headers or time stamps, but Writer won't, so is good when you only want to test connectivity.
Hope that makes sense, regards!