Printer Cups Epson 5009L [Solved]

kimbuba · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 22

Hello,
i'm trying to make my printer work but with no success.

Epson 5009L USB port.

I have tried with various howtos (like http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml)
but i got some errors and a no working printer.

Under cups' error log i got:

penguinlnx · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

I'm copying my post from another board, in case it can help you get your printer going:

An Update on Printer problem... ( post #12)

Well, I thought I'd better update this, in case there are others struggling with this problem:

I thought I had the printer install beaten with the following procedure:

(1) CUPS, FOOMATIC-FILTER, and GHOSTSCRIPT apparently need to be running. In my distro (VLOL-Gentoo) two are already installed and running, so I only need the FOOMATIC-FILTER. I either emerge foomatic-filters or do it from Portal/Portage. To check if CUPS is running, try #/etc/init.d/CUPSD STATUS <CR>. If needed, you can get it going with #/etc/init.d/CUPSD START <CR>. If it's not installed, you could #emerge cups <cr> from the console, I think. If you have to do any of this, it is probably a good idea to reboot, to make sure everything is now installed and running.

(2) Get .PPD file for your printer. I went to www.linuxprinting.org and fetched the hl1250.ppd file from there and downloaded it directly into /usr/share/cups/model/<yourprintername.ppd> . You can seemingly compile this file too, at this website manually. In my case, the hl-1250 is available and is supposed to work for my Brother hl-1230 laser printer also. You will need to restart again for the new .ppd file to be noticed and incorporated into CUPS as an option.

(3) Go to localhost:631 in your web-browser. This apparently runs a local config program for CUPS. When you get there, you click on printers, and you are prompted for your username and password (use 'root' & whatever the password for 'root' is.) Go through the steps to install a printer, including selecting your brand and finding the driver (.ppd). Configure the printer. In my case, 300 dpi was all the driver supports. Test the printer by printing a test page. Reboot if necessary.

Well, I thought that covered it all, for it appeared to work fine the first time. (although when printing using a web-browser, long webpages are broken up and a few lines are lost at the top of each page.)
However, the second time I followed this procedure, after reinstalling my OS, it didn't work. The CUPS/driver talk to the printer, because I see the lights flashing, but no pages come out. I have tried shutting on and off the printer, and rebooting. Any ideas?

------- Addendum (or -dumb...)

I just went to localhost:631 again to see if there was some other menu options or something to slap the printer in the face, and I selected 'PRINTERS' and hit the 'Configure Printer' button. The info there was correct, but I pressed the 'continue' button anyway (reconfiguring with the same info). I came back to the PRINTERS screen and hit the PRINT TEST PAGE button, and lo and behold, NOW it prints!
:scratch: :confused: :study:

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kimbuba · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 22

i did what you posted but nothing happened.
Always the same error.
Any ideas?

Thnx!

kimbuba · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 22

I read this post but i don't know where to find that file ijs_server_epsonepl
http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/epson-list/2003q1/002362.html

kimbuba · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 22

Solved!!

here is what i did for anyone who will have my same problem.

The problem was sh: line 1: ijs_server_epsonepl: command not found
i went to http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-EPL-5900L
there i got the driver