[SOLVED] epson c84 not responding

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

I configured it with foomatic-configure -s cups -p Epson-Stylus_C82 -c file:/dev/lp0 -n Epson -d gimp-print.

no errors there.
before that the latest gimp-print was emerged.
Why c82? because linuxprinting.org advised to do so.

cups says it is idle and accepting jobs, light = green, but when I use escputils -i -u -r /dev/lp0, I get no output and hear no sound from printer.
When I click on testpage in cups, the job immediatly jumps to completed jobs, but the page is never printed.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject:

incubator,

Check the DeviceURI in /etc/cups/printers.conf. When I set my printer up it had a missing "/".

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incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

<DefaultPrinter Epson>
Info Epson Stylus C82
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
looks normal to me

and it isnt a cable or hardware issue because it seems to work in windoze

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

here is a debug log:

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

I just tried the PPD from linuxprinting.org for the C82 and tried gimp-print-ijs, but that didnt work either.
I have absolutely no idea where he is getting stp as devicename from :s
I sure hope I get this thing to work or i'm taking it back ...

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

I still need some help out here, I still didnt get it to work and no one ever seems to bother looking into this topic anymore.
Is it something I sayd??

foxtrot · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Atlanta, GA

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

I tried gimp-print-ijs also and that didnt work either, but I didnt know epson had a setup for the c82 driver.

edit: I didnt find any setup script for c82 for linux.
And even though people say epson is supporting linux in some way, I havent encountered a linux driver yet. Either windoze or macOSX
funny thing is though, the only thing that DOES work is
echo "test" > /dev/lp0
but of course the paper hangs..., though escputil -i -u -r /dev/lp0 doesnt give a dime

foxtrot · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Atlanta, GA

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

this is just great

I tried installing them, I run the setup, I run /etc/init.d/ekpd,
I add the printer via cups as instructed (because their command gives an error)
printer is as usually recognized, but it STILL does not print.
this is the latest report from /var/log/cups/error_log

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

and now cups is doing weird, it no longer displays /dev/lp0 in the list of ports

....

But what I 'd like to know is: why does it just fail with me whe nI am oing everything right and with everyone else it seem
s to work. (unless they arent telling the truth...)

I have followed the gentoo-printing faq everytime; configuration for my old hp 500 was childsplay and worked like a charm, until the damn thing burned up.
and now I am stuck with something that refuses to even say a word in gentoo, I really dont like to reboot to windows to do all my printing jobs, not to mention hosing all the files to floppy then...

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject:

incubator,

The device file may not exist until you connect your priter and switch it on.

You may need to poke about in the BIOS and choose the 'right' mode for your parallel port. Standard is almost certainly wrong, since it makes it very difficult for the printer to respond to quries from the host PC.

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incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

the printer was connected and switched on all the time.
the printer works 100% fine in windows, so I doubt it would be a BIOS setting.
hp 500 worked perfectly with same BIOS setting for parallell port

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

I found something here:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/computers/12-1999/msg00063.html

but where can I change the gs command cups uses?

derconny · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 11

Ok, here is my setup:

First, I noticed you're not using the printer on the usb as I do, nevertheless I hope that I can help you.

Packages I've installed:

gimp-print-4.3.21
cups-1.1.19-r1
ghostscript-7.05.6-r3

foomatic-db-engine-3.0.0
foomatic-filters-3.0.0

I don't know what foomatic is actually doing and I never installed it manually, so this seems to be some dependency.

I never tried the epson kowa drivers or gimp-print-ijs.
Basically I just emerged cups, gimp-print and ghostscript.

Ok, heres /etc/cups/printers.conf

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

now thats strange, when I asked foomatic for a printer resembling c84, it returned nothing, so I suppose on my system it does not have a c84.ppd
you are free to email it to me to
incubator at skynet dot be
and if all else fails I better get that usb cable back (I standard received it but since I had everything set up already for parallell I exchanged it for a parallell cable.
I will investigate this further though

thnx for the info.

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

I dont know what is wrong with this thing :s
cups recognizes the printer with this new ppd as a true epson c84 with gimp-print etc but as usual every job I throw at it is immediatly cancelled

I looked in the BIOS config and checked the parallell port mode, wich is EPP+ECP (since the amd k7s5a pro has one EPP/ECP parallell port)
I tested with auro, 378h, 278h and 3BCh using irq 7 and dma 3
no results at all.
Is this a common thing that epson printers work better with usb in linux? or is it just my system again?

foxtrot · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Atlanta, GA

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

then I must be halfway there, I do have /dev/lp0
and echo "test" > /dev/lp0 conjures a page with "test" on it, but the page comes out only when I turn the printer off.
Thats why I dont understand why cups wont print its test page (and any other program like open office)

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

well, I use the gentoo-sources-r7
2.4.20

I dont know if upgradiing to reither r9 or 2.4.22 would help, though I would like to have some confirmation from someone who is quite familiar with kernels.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 10:34 am Post subject:

incubator,

Some printers need a line feed before they will put ink on the paper.
When you do echo "test" > /dev/lp0 the text "test" is sent to the printer but it does nothing with it for lack of a line feed character.

Find a file with some text in it (almost anything in /etc/ will do) and cat that to the printer. It should print it all except perhaps the last line. It may not eject the printed sheet either.

If this works, then its a CUPS setup problem. You should have a CUPS error log somewhere. Post that.

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NeddySeagoon
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incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

full error_log from cups at
http://users.skynet.be/incubator/error_log

short version of one job only:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject:

incubator,

This is a bad sign

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

C84.ppd is non-existant in the foomatic db on my system, and I have a very recent version.
Whe nI try to run the grep C84 ... command I get nothing.
when I run foomatic configure with your params I get this:

Cannot read file /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Epson-Stylus_C84.xml!
Cannot read file /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Epson-Stylus_C84.xml!
Printer file /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Epson-Stylus_C84.xml corrupted, missing, or not readable!
Could not run "foomatic-combo-xml"/"foomatic-perl-data"! at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 509.

and these error log I posted earlier were with a genuine C84.ppd that was mailed to me.
So I must conclude that something is VERY wrong here :s

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:49 pm Post subject:

incubator,

I run a ~x86 system. My foomatic, all 4 parts are dated 20031018. Thats October 18 this year,

What does emerge foomatic -s say on your system?

I have cups 1.1.19-r1, gnome-cups-manager 0.17 and libgnomecups 0.1.6.
None of the other cups stuf is installed.

emerge cups -s will list all of the cups components.

Lastly my gimp-print is 4.3.21. I see that version 4.3.25 is out now.

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NeddySeagoon
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