[NTLUG:Discuss] Epson Stylus Color 860 USB recognized but not printing

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 18:10, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello everyone:
> 
> I am trying to configure my Epson Stylus Color 860 printer
> on a RedHat 7.3 box.
> 
> Here is what I did:
> 1. Powered the machine off.
> 2. Turned it on, and entered the BIOS.
> 3. Enabled USB and USB Legacy Support in the BIOS.
> 4. Save the settings and let the machine boot.
> 5. Logged into KDE as root
> 6. Connected the printer to the first USB port.
> 7. Hit the KDE COntrol Panel icon from the desktop.
> 8. Hit the Printer Configuration icon.
> 9. Hit the New Button
> 10. For the Queue Name, typed "Epson"
> 11. For the Queue Type, select "Local Printer"
> 12. Under the devices, there was a line:
> 	/dev/usb/lp0	Epson USB Printer
>     I selected it and hit Next.
> 12. For the printer driver, I chose Epson -> Stylus Color 860 -> stp
> 13. Hit Apply
> 14. Went to Test > ASCII Text Testpage
> 
> Nothing printed!
> 
> I did an lpq and saw that the job was deleted:
> Printer: Epson at dsl
>  Queue: no printable jobs in queue
>  Status: removing job 'cfA150dsl.JAMMConsulting.com' - JREMOVE at
> 16:41:16.664
> 
> After running several other test pages and looking at lpq, I saw
> messages like this one:
> Printer: Epson at dsl
>  Queue: 1 printable job
>  Server: pid 2207 active
>  Unspooler: pid 2222 active
>  Status: attempt 2, sleeping 10 before retry at 16:42:41.166
>  Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size Time
> 1      root                         A   206 /usr/share/printconf/t 193
> 16:42:39
> 
[... snip ..]

I had the same thing happen when I upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.2.  I
forgot to save my printcap file and had forgotten how to correctly set
up my printer queue - that won't happen again.  

Anyway, try renaming your queue to "lp" and set the queue type to "Unix
printer".  This worked for me and I'm not about to change it.  You might
be able to leave your queue type as "Local" though since yours really is
local - I have a print server.

> 
> 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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Alton R. Pouncey, II