On 31 Mar 2004 at 8:58, Edward Dekkers wrote:
Edwin Humphries wrote:
We're trying to share an Epson USB printer via Samba on our new Fedora server.
The share is set up OK, and can be seen and opened from Windows clients. However, although the Fedora box can print to the Epson, the Windows boxes can.
I'm assuming this is a typo, I'm sure you wouldn't be posting if they can both print OK.
Yes, sorry: should read "can't".
All other Samba shares, including a laser printer connected to the parallel port, work fine.
Does anyone have a clue how to fix this?
Please tell us EXACTLY what's happening. Just saying something doesn't work really isn't good enough to guess what is going wrong.
I've checked the port settings on the Epson driver: if I install it from the Epson CD, it's set to LPT1: and can't be changed, so that doesn't work. If I install it from the Add Printer "wizard", the job (usually print test from windows) shows up on the Epson Status Monitor showing a connection error.
OK, forget the status monitor for starters - this is simply not going to work over the samba share, as it relies on the Windows driver. Linux doesn't have the Windows driver, hence the status monitor is not going to work.
I cannot remember EXACTLY what I did to get my C82 working like your configuration, but I do remember I had to change something inside the cups configuration files to set the cups system to RAW printing mode.
I found the answer on the net at that stage, and since the printer is no longer on my server, I cannot give you the exact answer. The reason I took it off the server and shared it with a real windows PC instead is because the C82 has 4 ink cartridges, yet only 1 ink out indicator. The status monitor is the ONLY way to see which ink is out. Really stupid on Epson's part, they obviously assumed everybody in the world runs Windows, but nothing I can do about it. The earlier printers with 1 black, 1 tri-colour DID have 2 ink indicator LEDs, this has only become a problem in the recent models.
Just having a look in /etc/cups right now, I've found it again. There's two files: mime.types and mime.conv
BOTH have a section in there called RAW printing support. I simply un-commented those lines (as instructed in the comments), and hey presto, I could print to the Epson.
However - You haven't given us the model of the Epson, but if you have less ink indicator LEDs than actual inks inside the printer, you really do need the monitor unless someone's written a clever program for Linux to monitor this for you.
Regards, Ed.
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