I've been having a problem with my Epson Stylus C80 printer with my
Mandrake 8.1 setup. In short: Even though the KUPS and control-center
"Printer" section could determine that I had it attached to my parallel
port, and it let me pick it from it's list of drivers, the blasted thing
just wouldn't actually print anything.
After doing a lot of playing around with things and setting cupsomatic to
debug mode (so it dumps a trace to /tmp), I saw messages saying that
escp2-80 was not a known model. Doing some searching, I found that the
cups-drivers-1.1-24.1mdk.rpm package from the cooker listed the driver as
being there. I did a "rpm -Uvh" to update the cups-drivers package, and
sure enough, I now find
/usr/share/cups/model/gimp-print/espc2-80.ppd.gz
to be a file in my system. I shutdown and restarted CUPS, then restarted
the control-center and went to the Printer Manager section to add the
printer. When I select the Epson Stylus C80 from the list, I'm presented
with a choice of two drivers:
Epson Stylus C80, Foomatic + gimp-print
EPSON Stylus C80, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.0
However, no matter which one of these drivers I choose, I'm still getting
nothing being printed. And I still get an error message in the trace
saying that escp2-c80 is unknown model.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? How do I get CUPS to see the
new drivers which were installed? Any help would be appreciated.
--Dave
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