How do I get a USB printer to work?

Baryonic Being

I have an Epson Stylus Photo 810 printer, which works perfectly with Mandrake Linux but I cannot seem to get it to work with Gentoo. I have followed the directions in the Gentoo Printing guide explicitly, and the printer shows no signs of intending to print anything when I send test pages to it. I cannot imagine what the problem is.

The usblp and usbcore drivers load fine; and I have both CUPS, foomatic and gimp-print installed.

Corona688 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204

Yeah, I hate it when it does that. cupsd has very unenlightening error messages. For the solution that worked for me, see

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=170736&highlight=cups
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Baryonic Being · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the helpful link, but it has unfortunately not made any difference in my case. Maybe I've done something wrong, so I'll keep working at it when I have enough time.

kibiras · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 22

what does cupsd say? I mean here: http://127.0.0.1:631/

Baryonic Being · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject:

When I try to print a test page, I get:

server-error-not-accepting-jobs

Baryonic Being · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject:

I now have an unusual situation:

The printer does not work with Windows (XP Pro) either.
Secondly, the printer does work on my laptop (XP Home).

So now I don't have a clue what to do.

Baryonic Being · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 11:32 am Post subject:

Success! It now works on Windows and Gentoo. I don't know why it works, but it does. Thank you for your help anyway.