[NTLUG:Discuss] Epson Stylus color 860 USB under RedHat 7.2?

[Bobby Wrenn]

Is lpd running?

ps afx | grep lpd

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> I am unsucessful in trying to get my epson stylus color 860 to
> work under redhat 7.2.
> 
> Here is what I did:
> 1. Plugged my printer into the first USB port on the back of the
>         computer.
> 2. Logged into KDE as root (I have the machine set-up to boot
>         into graphical mode).
> 3. Hit the "KDE Control Panel" icon on my desktop.
> 4. Hit the "Printer Configuration" icon. This brought
>         up the printconf-gui.
> 5. Hit the "New" Button. This brought up the Add a new Print Queue
>         dialog.
> 6. Hit the "Next" button.
> 7. For Queue Name, I put in "Epson".  I left the "Local Printer"
>         check box selected.
> 8. The devices list had these two items:
>         /dev/lp0
>         /dev/usb/lp0    EPSON USB Printer
>    So I selected the /dev/usb/lp0 line and hit Next
> 9. In the Printer Driver selection, I chose "Epson" and then
>         "Stylus Color 860" and then "stp" (Which was listed
>         as the best driver in the linuxprinting database) and
>         then hit Next.
> 10. On the confirm page, I had these items:
>         Type: Local Printer Device
>         Device: /dev/usb/lp0
>         Driver: Epson Stylus Color 860 stp
>      Everything looked OK, so I hit Finish. This closed the
>         dialog.
> 11. In the printconf-gui, I hit Apply.
> 12. I went to Test - > ASCII Test Page
> 
> Nothing happened.  It seems like the system found my printer during the
> config, but it is not able to print to it.
> 
> I don't see any error messages or anything else to try to figure out
> what happened.
> 
> Any ideas??
> 
> Thanks,
>         Neil.
> 
> --
> Neil Aggarwal
> JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
> Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases
> 
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