On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 00:35:20 -0800 "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote these words:
> 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 Have you tried setting up and printing from GIMP ? Have you tried setting up your printer with; printerdrake Ocassionaly one of the other of these gets previously non-recognized drivers up and running !? The following is a gold-mine of cups info... http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html Good luck... William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
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