On Friday 25 May 2001 11:45 am, you wrote:
> On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote:
> > Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color
> > with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout
> > a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any
> > application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers
> > going through with sometimes some gibberish color and B&W print. When it
> > does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows
> > that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the
> > website for cups but that is the only place.
> >
> > Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or
> > to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works
> > fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer
> > itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing
> > quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing
> > improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I
> > just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly
> > appreciated. Thanks so very much.
> >
> > Sincerely, Marcia
>
> I thought I resolved my printer problem last night except for the quality.
> When I went to the web cups admin and changed the resolution, the problems
> only became worse. When I tried a test page it just would pour out paper
> after paper with some print gibberish occasionally. I tried to cancel the
> jobs from both the command line and from the web and neither have worked.
> The jobs will not cancel. I have deleted all of my printers from the web
> and it still does this kind of eternal printing. How do I cancel the jobs
> now? Also, I want to get my printer working correctly. I have tried
> everything that I can think of so far including all of your suggestions.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia
This ain't the correct way, I have done a turn off printer, locate spool,
then rm /var/spool/cups/* and rm /var/spool/cups/tmp/* and rebooted.
That sucks, but I was starting to get low on the $100/ounce ink! :-)
Sorry you're having so much trouble, you been working on this for quite some
time and I wish I could help. I wish Civilme could jump in here with some
epson printer advise. Mine ain't doing much better. If you can find one of
the drivers that will print anything near correctly and then up the dpi maybe
that'll work. That's what I did. I have a 777 and found the 680 almost
works.
-s
