Cold weather & printers

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:52:06 -0600

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> The problem has been
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> I have a Linux server with CUPS and some printers. One pair of printers are
> set up right at the door to the yard. This is the 2nd time I got call from
> this customer, and a coincidence point is they report same problem happened
> two or three weeks ago, and same printers,  when it was also cold. It is
> about 35 oF now. OK, OK you may laugh and say it's not cold, but for
> Houston, it is *cold*.
> 
> The printers just do not print unless you turn it off and on, or remotely be
> reset. This happens to both printers which is next to the door.
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> Right now I do not know how to cure them. I asked people there to move their
> heater closer to the printers but it seems they could not do it because they
> have some kind of industrial heater, not the small ones.
> 

The answer is an industrial rated printer that can handle the cold, some will 
work down to -20F. Thats what we get here( or colder) during the winter at times.

I wish it was 35 right now. It was -3 this morning and -12 yesterday morning.
We did however warm up to 14 yesterday and 22 today.

Ronnie



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