Ok, purged lprng but I had to purge magicfilter
as well, because of the dependency.
So I installed lpr and magicfilter.
I ran magicfilter --force as root
and created the same settings as
you, even giving it the name epsonsc.
Right now the symptom is that it
spools to /var/spool/lpd/epsonsc
but nothing prints.
If I run cat filename > /dev/lp0
the file prints, but I have to hit
the printer's page button to
eject the page.
When I run lpc status I get:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
1 entry in spool area
printer idle
So why is the printer idle?
Alex Miller
On Sunday 01 July 2001 20:20, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Alex Miller wrote:
> > When I print to my Epson Stylus Color 670
> > only garbage characters appear for page after
> > page.
>
> .. then stop printing after the 1st page! :)
>
> Seriously -- I'm using the same printer, no probs -- AFTER I threw away
> lprng and replaced it with lpr. (Why this should make such a
> difference, I don't know. Anyone got any clues?) I had the same
> problem as you to begin with.
>
> I purged lprng [ dpkg --purge lprng ]
> the installed lpr [ apt-get install lpr ]
> from a sources list pointing to testing.
>
> The driver I installed under magicfilter was as follows:
>
>
> # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig.
> #
> lp|epsonsc|Stylus Color 670:\
>
> :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsonsc:\
> :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_360dpi-filter:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
>
> .. which reminds me -- I noticed that the printer name 'epson' is
> already in use, so I changed the one I gave to: epsonsc
>
> HTH
>
> msw
