Well, folks - I'm having a heckuva day. Last night, I tried to print out a
simple ASCII text file, created in Kedit, of a short story my 12 yr old had
written for his Literature class. The teacher wanted it in a 20 pt font size.
I've never tried printing that large before and never imagined all the
difficulties I would have. I set the font to 20, hit the print icon, got the
usual ASCII is an unknown format, have to convert message and it began
printing. In such large letters that only a few words would fit on each line.
So, I saved the file, dragged 'n dropped it onto my printer icon (linked to
Kprinter). Now, the font size is shrunk to about 12. Go figure. So I assume
there is some way to do this, just that I can't find it. So I try, in order,
Webmin, printerdrake, and kups. The printout also had some headers (date,
page number, etc) so I use lpoptions -r prettyprint to try and remove that.
Finally, now - every file I print causes the printer (Epson C62-USB, less than
2 months old) to print a solid black page, from top to bottom. After about 4
sheets like this, I'm convinced. <grin> I go back to printerdrake, reset
everything, everything seems to be found. Still doesn't work. Now, I've got a
red light on my printer. I use Mtink, because I figure after all those solid
black printouts, and since its the original black ink cart that came with the
printer, that I'm out. Well, Mtink shows 8 percent. I wasn't sure about what
minimum it starts giving errors on, so I change it. Except that the red light
still does not go off (yes, it has paper, and the USB cable is still hooked
up). I recheck everything. Again. I disconnect the printer from the system,
try to do a self-check with printout. Won't work. Look for paper jams. Can't
see any. I go ahead and change the color cartridge, just in case, even though
Mtink said it was okay. Still no difference, red light stays on.
So I shutdown for the night, gave up. Restarted this morning, green light and
red light (solid not blinking) both on.
USBview says its there, control centers say its there, tried to print a file,
got this error message:
A print error occured. Error message received from system:
cupsdoprint -P 'Printer' -J 'exports' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'darklord' -o '
Contrast=1.000 Cyan=1.000 Density=1.000 Magenta=1.000 StpBrightness=1.000
StpGamma=1.600 StpSaturation=1.000 Yellow=1.000 copies=1
multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies'
'/tmp/kde-darklord/kdeprint_89dtCWl' : execution failed with message:
server-error-not-accepting-jobs
Go back to Webmin, it says the printer is "idle, rejecting jobs".
Anyone have any idea what I did wrong/happened? Better yet, how to fix it?
Otherwise I guess I'm going to have to check my warranty papers. For the life
of me, I can't figure out what I did to cause all this.
Thanks, and sorry for the long post...
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