[NTLUG:Discuss] Cups Configuration and Epson Stylus C60

[brad angelcyk]

Few questions for you:

- What version of Ghostscript do you have installed?
    (CUPS formats all pages through Ghostscript)
- Does the test page print through the web page?
- Have you tried changing the make and model both to  
     "raw"?  I had a problem printing to a HP printer
and setting both the make and model to raw fixed it. 
I think it may have been a problem with my ghostscript
install though.

Hopefully this helps.

Brad



--- Ed Coates <edcoates at nighthawk.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I finally decided to break down and see if I can get
> my printer configured
> in Linux this past weekend.  I was pleasantly
> suprised when I plugged the
> printer into the USB port that there was an update
> into /var/log/messages
> about a new device.  I looked at /proc/bus/usb/001
> and a new entry was
> there.  I tried out lsusb, and sure enought it saw
> an Epson Stylus
> Printer.  I thought that from here on out, it would
> be a piece of cake to
> get it working.
> 
> I first tried by the web interface for cups.  I
> added a printer called
> epsonc60, and it found the device on /dev/usb/lp0. 
> I then picked the
> recommended driver for it using gimp-print.  The
> time came to print a test
> page....nothing...just a blinking light on the
> printer.  I waited a minute
> or two, then turned the printer off, cleared the
> queue, with cancel, and
> then used lpadmin to blow away the printer.
> 
> I then configured the printer from the command line
> using lpadmin and
> tried sending a print job to it using lp and lpr, to
> no avail.  lpq showed
> there there was a job queued, and printing, but no
> output to the printer
> at all.  I then blew away the printer and the queue
> again, and started
> searching the web.  Unfortunately,
> www.linuxprinting.org was down most of
> the weekend due to a server move, and didn't come
> back up until Sunday.
> Most of the google searches pointed to it, so my
> searching was a bit
> fruitless.
> 
> I finally decided to use the web interface to add
> the printer back one
> more time and see, if by some chance or magic that
> it would finally work.
> This last time I just got frustrated and left to do
> other things.  I had
> forgotten that the print job was still queued, and
> about 1/2 hour the
> printer came to life and started printing a couple
> of lines and then
> stopped.  About 5 mins later, it would print another
> couple of lines, and
> then stop.  The Job was queued at 7PM Sunday night,
> and I went to bed at
> 11:30 PM that night, and it still wasn't done.  It
> took over 4 hours to
> print, and that's just not acceptable at all.
> 
> Has anyone else ever run into something similar,
> perhaps with a different
> model of printer?  I did an strace on the lp
> processes, and a majority of
> them were sleeping/waiting in limbo for a return of
> some kind.  I ran top
> on the lp processes, and nothing seemed to be taking
> up an extraordianry
> amount of resources or anything.
> 
> Here is my configuration:
> 
> Dual Pentium II 233MHz processors
> 192MB RAM
> SuSE Linux 8.2
> Kernel 2.4.20-4GB-SMP (but I would think that that
> would matter)
> libgimpprint-4.2.5-28
> cups-libs-1.1.18-77
> cups-client-1.1.18-77
> cups-drivers-1.1.18-42
> cups-drivers-stp-1.1.18-42
> cups-1.1.18-77
> 
> I just don't know where to start troubleshooting the
> length of time.
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
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