Had a similar problem with my Epson Stylus Color 777 on Mandrake 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1. I had to uninstall and reinstall cups and it's libraries, then reinstall the printer through harddrake.
I already asked the question about this problem, but I didn't get any answer, so this is the only workaround I found to work. I had to do those steps about once a week.
To uninstall cups, type urpme cups in a console, as root. It will complain about dependencies, uninstall them too. Next step is to reinstall cups with the following command: urpmi cups (still as root in a console). It will install its dependencies too.
I hope there is a better way to solve this annoying problem, if so, I'd be happy to learn it...
Albert Charron
Thanks Albert - that worked. I'd be interested to know what went wrong though, and if it can be prevented in future. Perhaps when the gurus have recovered from their New Year celebrations...
Margot
-----Original Message-----
From: Margot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:38 PM
To: newbie
Subject: [newbie] "Lost" printer - Epson C42UX
On Mandrake 9.2 I have a printer - Epson Stylus C42UX - connected to /dev/usb/lp0. Up until a few days ago everything worked fine. Now I can't print at all.
Done all the obvious things - made sure everything is plugged in, changed both ink cartridges, made sure it has paper.
The printer does not show on the list of hardware detected by Harddrake, so I deleted it and added it as a new printer. It is recognised by OpenOffice, but nothing prints, and it still doesn't show up on the Harddrake list.
What should I try next?
Margot
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