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lpr not printing

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I have an HP inkjet printer connected to an lubuntu laptop with a USB cable, installed under CUPS as "inkjet". I can print with AbiWord OK, and a printer test page prints OK from the printer properties dialog, but if I try to print from the command line with "lpr -Pinkjet", nothing happens. I don't get any error message, and the inkjet print queue shows as empty. lpstat shows the print queue as empty.

I am running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. The printer driver is hp-envy_4510_series-hpijs.ppd.

Any ideas?

* Edit 11 Dec 2018 *

I see some error messages in the CUPS error log:

E [11/Dec/2018:09:08:43 -0500] Unknown directive JobPrivateAccess on line 85 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

E [11/Dec/2018:09:08:43 -0500] Unknown directive JobPrivateValues on line 86 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

E [11/Dec/2018:09:08:43 -0500] Unknown directive SubscriptionPrivateAccess on line 87 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

E [11/Dec/2018:09:08:43 -0500] Unknown directive SubscriptionPrivateValues on line 88 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

W [11/Dec/2018:09:08:48 -0500] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

W [11/Dec/2018:09:08:48 -0500] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

W [11/Dec/2018:09:08:48 -0500] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

I am too ignorant of CUPS to know what to do about them or to judge their severity, so I would appreciate any advice.

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answered 3 Years ago barted · Accepted Answer

The problem was resolved by installing the cups-bsd package, as recommended in lp works but lpr does not. (If I had realized that lp was working, I might have found this answer sooner.)

I realize that it would be better to close this question and mark it as a duplicate, as recommended by unutbu, but I don't have enough rep to vote to close, so I am posting this answer in an attempt to achieve some kind of closure.