On Jul 17, 2005, at 7:24 PM, Ken Norris wrote:
Howdy,
The Gimp Print forum seems a little sluggish for answers so I'll
try here too if you don't mind.
I've installed the latest OSX non-beta version which also has the
CUPS with it.
No joy ;-( We have an Epson 1520 with a Parallel-USB adapter,
which worked fine with Epson's OS 9 drivers on the B&W.
Nothing happens. I just get the eternal barber-pole (intermediate
bar). The advice from others seems to revolve around something
called "Print Center". Even though the dialog says the install was
successful, I can find no such file, only the Print Setup where I
did all the right stuff AFAICS.
Anyone have a clue?
All the best,
Ken N.
It would help to know the OS version you are running... and do you
mean you are only printing from classic or X?
There's a note about 2 issues with the cups stuff and 10.4.2, which
may or may not apply to you, but the troubleshooting certainly may help.
Thy changed something with regards to use of Appletalk, if you are
using Appletalk to get to this printer then the idea here might help:
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Here's another fix for getting the EPSON Printer Utility to work
under Tiger. Go into the System Preferences Networking panel and turn
OFF AppleTalk. This may not be the best solution for those dependent
on AppleTalk networking.
Deleting the SPX786EX.plugin directory fixed the crashing problem.
After that, the utility would then just sit and spin. Doing some
poking around with /usr/sbin/lsof (list open files for a process(s))
turned up the program was trying to use AppleTalk. While the utility
was spinning, I could NOT access the networking panel. A reboot was
necessary.
My guess is the utility is tickling something bad in the AppleTalk
networking stack.
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and
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Alex Rosenberg indicated that 10.4.2 changes /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to
disable browsing. There is no mention of this in the release notes on
support.apple.com and of course, it broke the fancy BrowsePoll setup
I had for printing at home.
I too hate it when Apple decides to dump a new cupsd.conf file on us
without warning. It's as if they never thought anyone would customize
the configuration file. Fortunately, they didn't just delete your old
settings. They moved your previous cupsd.conf file to cupsd.conf.OLD.
You can restore your original settings through the Terminal command:
sudo mv /private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.OLD /private/etc/cups/
cupsd.conf
Be sure to restart the CUPS daemon:
sudo killall -HUP cupsd
If you ever need to restore the most recent cupsd.conf file from
Apple, you can the default template:
sudo ditto /private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /private/etc/cups/
cupsd.conf
sudo killall -HUP cupsd
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You can find more printing stuff WRT: 10.4.2 here:
<http://www.macintouch.com/tiger27.html>
Brian
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