[PLUG] CUPS problem

[Carla Schroder]

On Saturday 27 December 2003 2:54 pm, Robert Brugman wrote:
> Hello,
> For Christmas, I received an Epson Stylus Photo 825.  I really would 
> like to get it networked via cups for my home network to make use of.  
> My problem is that I can't get it to print, even though I installed 
> everything I'm supposed to.  There is no weirdness in the error log 
> either, just a printer that won't print.
> 
> Here's what I installed:
> Cups 1.1.20
> Ghostscript (off cups.org)
> Gimp Print (latest version off their site)
> All Graphics libraries (jpeg, tiff, png, zlib)
> Foomatic
> 
> I also made sure that USB was compiled into my kernel.  It's compiled 
> as a module, and when I type "lsmod" usbcore and usb-ohci appear.
> 
> I used CUPS web interface to add my printer, and it says that  it's 
> ready, but when I click "print test page" nothing happends, it just 
> sits there.

At least it's not a Lexmark USB printer, then you'd have such a pretty 
paperweight. First step is what does /var/log/cups say? Be sure your 
'LogLevel' in cupsd.conf is 'debug'. 

Are you trying to print over the network, or locally?

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