Jean-Paul Rivet wrote: > Just a quick note on getting this printer to work - it didn't work smoothly > first up but after some fiddles is now going. > > a) First observation - upon switching the printer on it is correctly > identifed as an Epson 890. However it generates an error on the task bar > with the printer applet popping up and saying: > > "Epson 890 failed to accept" > This could be caused by a badly formated user profile in /etc/user_attr what do you have grep <user name> /etc/user_attr ? > At this point my memory is a bit hazy, I think it creates a print queue as > per under the Solaris Print Manager. However printing does not work. > > b) Solution is to delete any print queues created automatically under Solaris > Print Manager. > > Manually add the printer yourself under Printer -> New Attached Printer: > > Printer name: using something like 'epson890' > Printer Port: the usb printer is located on machine as /dev/printers/1 > Printer Make: select Epson > Printer Model: select Epson Stylus Photo 870 > Printer Driver: select SUNWfootmatic(S):Foomatic/Stp870p.upp(recommended) > and tailor the rest to suit. > We don't seems to have a epson 890 ppd file that comes with snv90, but do have 870 as the one you used and seems to work. I am not sure what the fuzzy matching algorithm got for the 890, did it get an epson? Thanks for sharing this for it to work. > And you should be in action. > > For testing I have printed successfully from Firefox, Test Page from > StarOffice 8 and webmin test page. > > c) This is using the 'lp' print service. I cannot get this printer to work > with CUPs 1.3.7 that is integrated with SXCE. > Thanks for sharing, you should log a bug again this,
-Ghee > Cheers, JP > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > printing-discuss mailing list > printing-discuss at opensolaris.org >
