" Many Epson printers (the 740 does not) need a special set of
characters sent to the printer for it to use the USB interface. You can
do this using a uniprint - stcany.upp - ghostscript combination, by
inserting an extra initialisation string in the -dupBeginPageCommand
part of stcany.upp. The string is

00 00 00
1b01 40 45 4a 4c 20 31 32 38 34 2e 34 0a
40 45 4a 4c 20 20 20 20 20 0a"

I'm not sure if I've implimented this correctly.  I use the stp driver,
and what I've done is created an stp.upp file (attached).  In the foo
file for the spool, I added "@stp.upp" to the ghostscript command. 
However, my printer still does not print.  The workaround I am currently
using is to print something (a single pixel, usually) with gimp.  After
I've printed something with gimp, I can print with any other app.  I
suspect that the gimp driver knows how to send the string, and once it
has been sent the printer is in the correct mode.

The question is, why does my current scheme not work?  gs seems to be
using stp.upp, but it doesn't work right.  

I created my stp.upp from stcany.upp, and edited out the parts that
didn't seem to apply.

Thank you,
Owen Williams

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