Hi Norberto, The printer is an Epson Stylus C62. The driver we tried to use was the Epson driver within CUPS. (Where you say what printer type and can choose Epson, HP and 2-3 others.) It did not allow us to choose the specific printer model.
- Mark On 12/8/05, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Norberto Bensa > 4544-9692 > Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina > -- [email protected] mailing list
