On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 11:08 -0400, William Oliver wrote: > I have an HP color laser writer/scanner that I connect to via wireless. > I find that it becomes unusable if I don't use it after awhile. I > went over to the room where the scanner is and noticed that it worked > great until the power saving feature turned on. My problem is that my > linux box can talk fine to the printer, but cannot wake it up once it's > gone into that powersaver mode. > > If I power cycle the printer or do something else to wake it up, then > it can talk to my linux box until it is quiet for a few minutes. > > When I boot in Windows, this isn't a problem. I've decided that the > linux driver is great for giving printing commands, but not so great > for all this power management stuff. I print once per day (the Guardian crossword :-) and rarely scan, so my printer is almost always asleep. I've also had it for three years without this problem so I don't think that's it. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
