Canon iP4600 won't print anymore

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Hello,

My Canon iP4600 was always working Plug & Play, i just powered the Printer ON and Plug it on my USB Port. Manjaro detects the correct Printer with its name, but when i click Print. Then nothing is happening, Printer LED’s shows ready but no Printer Job is in que after clicking print. There is also no error visible :man_shrugging:

I also tried different USB Ports and i also tried to Print from Okular and from Firefox, but nothing is happening around the Print Queue.

Last year there was no problem. Could this related to the newer KDE version?

I read somewhere that KDE wanted to introduce a INK Overview for Printers.

Printer Jobs rejected
Printer Jobs rejected2560×1440 315 KB

$systemctl status cups.service
●cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service;enabled; preset: disabled)
Active:active (running)since Sun 2025-11-16 11:58:05 CET; 1 day 16h ago
Invocation: c33a6f983a4441fcab9c81562e1f81d9
TriggeredBy: ●cups.socket
●cups.path
Docs: man:cupsd(8)
Main PID: 1073 (cupsd)
Status: "Scheduler is running..."
Tasks: 2 (limit: 19051)
Memory: 264.5M (peak: 410.2M, swap: 264K, swap peak: 264K)
CPU: 3.619s
CGroup: /system.slice/system-cups.slice/cups.service
├─ 1073 /usr/bin/cupsd -l
└─44224 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://

Notice: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete.

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I could fix the problem.

Somehow KDE decided to reject my Print Jobs, i didnt changed anything in my last 4 year’s around my Print Settings.

So i went into startmenue>System>Print Settings and double left clicked on my Printer Icon (iP4600-Series). Then i clicked on Policies and checked a Box named: Accepting jobs.

Now i can finally start printing again and the Jobs shown up into the Print Queue.

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The print server - CUPS - may change the printer’s Accepting Jobs parameter if it encounters errors when communicating with the printer.

I have seen it before - but I don’t now the exact motivation for it, so one can only guess..

So not KDE but a printer failure has set the printer as not accepting jobs.

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ArchWiki - CUPS - Gutenprint

Note When the Gutenprint packages get updated, the printers using Gutenprint drivers will stop working until you run cups-genppdupdate as root and restart CUPS. cups-genppdupdate will update the PPD files of the configured printers, see cups-genppdupdate(8) for more details.

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Thats good to know, thanks for that info… i still have problems to identify, if a bug is related to the Desktop Environment or just the Package that works in background.

Strange info from CUPS, if this is really the case… why could i do Printing then from 2020 till December 2024 flawless/Plug and Play.

And why is my Printer running again after activating just the Print Job in the UI?

Maybe the UI is executing cups-genppdupdate in background.

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