Epson Stylus Color 880 Not working [SOLVED]

feint · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 51

Before I upgraded to KDE 3.3 my printer worked fine. After I installed it no longer works. In KDE it finds the gimp-print foomatic driver for my printer. On the cups localhost webpage it does not. What is odd is that anything i send to the printer to be printed turns up as "Completed" but nothing comes out. This is not as odd when compared to the fact that I can check the ink levels and clean the print cartridges, but I cannot print. Any suggestions? I have tried completely removing everything printing related and then reinstalling and nothing will work.

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I am a freaking n00b. I had the USE flag in the make.conf to produce ppds files, but i just did a emerge -vp gimp-print and it had a "-ppds" use flag. How lame.

diastelo · Guru Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 521

For CUPS, you will probably have to download the appropriate PPD file, if you haven't already. You can find these at linuxprinting.org by searching through their database of supported printers. Once you have CUPS working, you should have a way to tell KDE to use your already installed (and hopefully working printer) which might be called something like lpr.
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feint · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 51

I followed the directions. It said that gimp-print had the appropraite PPD.