(Sorry, forgot subject last time.) All right, after a week of poking my brain has about had it. :^) �I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus Photo 700 working with Cups, I'm running debian/sid (mostly up to date) on and oldworld pmac, homebuilt kernel 2.4.23-pre5-ben0. � As far as I can tell, I've got Everything I Could Ever Need(tm) installed (Cups packages, gimp-print drivers, ghostscript, foomatic packages, and possibly more I've forgotten already) but I haven't been able to get it to print properly. �It spits out numerous pages of what I assume is PostScript interpreted by a raster printer without proper conversion, but I'm not sure. � It prints a couple few lines of random chars and goes to the next page. �I haven't let it get beyond about four pages.
As far as I can tell, I have my printer settings ok. �My device URI is 'serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=230400' (printer port), with or without '+bits=8 +parity=none+flow=soft', changing bitrates and such doesn't seem to do anything. I've tried native cups driver, gimp-print ppd and foomatic gimp-print/ijs ppd, from both the foomatic install and generated from linuxprinting.org, and the gimp-print/stp driver. �I've also tried configuring with Kprint, foomatic-configure, and the Cups web interface, with pretty much the same effect, only very slight variations in output. � I've also googled fairly extensively, and no one seems to know anything about using the Stylus Photo 700 on a serial port. �Oh, and there aren't any obvious errors in the logs that I could see, either; I do have it logging at debug level (logs readily available if needed). �Anyone have tips to go on from here? �What do I wack at next? �This is driving me nuts and I'd like to make it work. �I hate to think about all this wrangling for nothing. :^) �And sorry if I missed something obvious. (I really hope I haven't, it's bad enough when it's just obvious. �It's worse when you've been racking your brain the whole week and it's obvious. ;) �That said, I eagerly await any tiny scrap of information you could possibly dig up that might help. :^) NRH
