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niai
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Joined: 05 May 2003
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 Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 3:27 pm Post subject: Epson Stylus Photo 750 on USB |
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Following the Gentoo Print Guide, when I get to Code Listing 1.6
| Quote: | # touch test.txt
# echo "Hello World" > test.txt
# cat test.txt > /dev/usb/lp0 |
The printer doesn't print. I have checked lp0 appears when i plug in the printer, but nothing is printed. |
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irasnyd
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Joined: 16 Feb 2003
Posts: 286
Location: Placentia, CA
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same problem, but I still got printing working ok on my Epson C82.
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emerge cups
emerge -C gimp-print-cups
emerge -C gimp-print
emerge ghostscript
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You may or may not need the Epson drivers....your printer might work okay without them.
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/linux.html, extract and install them
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tar -xvfz pips-*.i386.tar.gz
cd pips-*
./configure
make all
make install
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It still won't print using the cat file.txt > /dev/usb/lp0 method, but this is how I got my printer to work (after much pain and suffering :-p)
Also, in the line
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foomatic-configure -s cups -p $printer_model_number -c $print_device_path -n queue name -d driver
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$print_device_path should be "file:/dev/usb/lp0" The file: was vital to get this to work.
Post some more if you have other troubles.
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ejahn1
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Joined: 04 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
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I've got an Epson C80 for which I want to use the Epson PIPS drivers instead of the gimp-print drivers (which are not really good for the C80, despite what linuxprinting.org says). So I downloaded and compiled the C80 PIPS driver (using gcc 2.95) which isn't a CUPS-compatibe version, to my knowledge. So I removed gimp-print-cups and cups and installed and added lprng and ekpd to the default runlevel. Then I ran the PIPC C80 setup script and tried a test print and this is what I get:
| Code: | A print error occured. Error message received from system:
/usr/bin/lpr -P 'sc80s' '-#1' '/usr/kde/3.1/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps' : execution failed with message:
Status Information: sending job 'ejahn@localhost+258' to sc80s@localhost connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 connected to 'localhost' requesting printer sc80s@localhost job 'ejahn@localhost+258' transfer to sc80s@localhost failed error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL' sending str '^Bsc80s' to sc80s@localhost error msg: 'spool queue for 'sc80s' does not exist on server localhost' error msg: ' non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'' |
I though I installed the lprng spooler fine, so what gives? Any help with this would be appreciated. It would have been a ton easier for me if they just made a CUPS version for the C80 like they did for the C82. I guess you have to prioritze your latest and greatest printer models.  |
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