Hi Mark,

Can you please give more details?

- Printer model
- Driver cups is using


Thanks,
Norberto

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    My wife picked up a new printer on the cheap. It's an Epson and
> pretty much identical to one on my son's old Fedora system so I am
> sure it should work. However so far I cannot get CUPS to make it
> print.
>
> 1) I've plugged it in to a USB port. It's visible using usbview.
>
> 2) I tried configuring it as a new printer within CUPS. I called it a
> USB printer and chose USB Printer #1.
>
> 3) I picked out the Epson Stylus stuff and CUPS said everythign was cool.
>
> 4) When I look at printer status I see that the printer is there. It
> says the printer is ready to print and its address usb:/dev/usb/lp0.
> However when I unplug the USB cable and refresh the browser it doesn't
> show as being not ready.
>
>    I tried printing a test page. The print job happens and the system
> says it's completed but no test page comes out.
>
>    What obvious thing am I missing about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

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