Hi all!

It's been two years since I'm using Linux and at my workplace I'm
using Linux exclusively. I could've had a Linux-only setup at home
also but for one thing - printer.

I've been driven nuts trying to get my Epson Stylus 460 running in
Linux in vain.  My last attempt was with the stock foomatic printer
drivers that came with RedHat 7.2. I had made a clean reinstall of
RedHat 7.2 and I selected the Stylus 460 driver - there were three
options for that and I selected stp, IIRC. When I tried printing the
PS test page, the printer started spewing

*** Unable to open initial device ***

ad infinitum.

Now I'm going back home after 3 months (I work in a different city,
you see) armed with RH 7.3 CDs and I plan to upgrade from 7.2. This
time could someone please tell me how to get things done? I would be
OK w/o photo printing as long as I can atleast print color postscript
and images at the normal 600 dpi. When I posted about my last attempt
with stock RH 7.2 foomatic drivers, someone told that those drivers
were broken and I should use new ones. Hope this time around things
might look up.

But please do give me some clear instructions on how to set it up
using the RH 7.3 foomatic drivers and printconf-tui or printconf-gui.

Thanks a lot in advance :-)


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Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST)
http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir
tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in
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