%!$§?# printing with cups/epson/whatever

eNTi

i'm so pissed and i'm desperate right now. i've tried to set up my printer AGAIN for hours now. it worked until 2 or 3 days ago another "update" would come out. i'm not even sure, what got updated, i figure it was foomatic (i do not even need those drivers). i know, that i should not complain about such issues, while being unstable (~x86) but i really need help on this. i've been going thorugh this PRINTER-HELL about 5 or 6 times now. i've even bought a printer, of which i KNEW it should work with linux, because i RTFMs.

so what happend? i hit the print button and nothing would come out. debug2 in /etc/cupsd.conf would show me a lot of stuff in /var/log/cups/error_log. escepcially weird where those status lines, that would repeat for a few hundert times. now the only strange two lines i could discover where:

Budro · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:24 am Post subject: Here's my setup

e,

I always run in "~x86" mode and have not seen your problem yet although I am printing to my Epson C82 attached to an XP machine via CUPS/SAMBA. I generated my .ppd files via CUPS's web interface using CUPS+GIMP-print v4.3.5 back in April and been using it since with no probs.

Here is what I have installed.....

AtomicDog · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:45 am Post subject:

I have an Epson C80 (almost the same printer as yours) and I was having similar issues, but was able to get my printer working after removing the printer configuration, re-emerging packages, and installing the printer again using the KDE printer manager.

Try using gimp-print (emerge gimp-print) in combination with cups, that seems to work well for me (cups lists it as "Foomatic + gimp-print-ijs").

Also, do you get any output from 'escputil'? Try the following command, substituting '/dev/usb/lp0' for whatever your printer's location is:

eNTi · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject:

i finnally managed to print a test-page. i've used gimp-print 4.3.5 and foomatic 3.0.0.

for some unknown reason the epson drivers are not making valid ppd files any longer.

it's still not working with pdf for example.
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Budro · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject: try linuxprinting.org

Try downloading a PPD file from
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C82

I can also send a copy of mine if you like??

eNTi · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:05 am Post subject:

after printing a test page i got a client-not-possible error. i somehow figured out that it might got something to do with the ekpd that was running that time. so i purged the epson drivers from the hdd an now everything is working fine until now. again i'm not sure what i did in what order but some tips of the "tips & tricks" area of this forum are outdated. if i'm very bored i'll try all that from scratch. making your printer what it's supposed to still is a horror and i wonder if this will ever get better. maybe i'll should do something about that. i already get the creeps from my next printer update.

thx for all your help.
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simbolo · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 16

Hey I was wondering how do you use gimp-print drivers or ppds or whatever with cups, short of manually dropping them into the model dir, because when I emerge gimp-print and restart cups I do not see any extra printers present in the web based config.

and another thing I also have an epson c82 and it worked fine with cups and drivers from http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/index.html , but since i reinstalled gentoo like 2 days ago those drivers do not wanto compile, giving me:

VanDan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 586 Location: Australia

Same compile problem here ( label at end of compound statement ).

Did you find a solution?

VanDan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 586 Location: Australia

The gimp-print ( cvs recommended currently ) drivers compile cleanly and work very well.

mosh5382 · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

You can put a ";" on line 73 to complete the make part of the compilation. I don't know if EKPD will function correctly but the will help you get past that perticular compile problem. I can promise you there will be more to come!

If it isn't clear you need to edit main.c in the ekpstm folder.