How to Check That the Printer is Ready to Print

1. Display printer status information.

   # lpstat -p printer-name

   The information displayed shows you whether the printer is idle or active, enabled or disabled, or available or not accepting print requests. If everything looks all right, continue with other procedures in this section. If you cannot run the lpstat command, see How to Unhang the LP Print Service.

2. If the printer is not available (not accepting requests), allow the printer to accept requests.

   # accept printer-name

   The printer begins to accept requests into its print queue.

3. If the printer is disabled, re-enable it.

   # enable printer-name

   This command re-enables the printer so that it will act on the requests in its queue.