A while back I had printing issues with a lexmark printer. It had been working until I did some updates, and then just stopped responding whatever. I tried everything I could think of and every suggestion I could get. I became fed up and decided to replace the lexmark (since this and other lexmarks had given me trouble) with an Epson (since I had heard so many good things about Epson printers with Linux). So, I purchased an Epson Styuls Photo 820. Linuxprinting.org says that this printer works perfectly. So I brought it home, installed the hardware, rebooted, the printer was detected, an appropriate driver (specific to this model, even) was offered and selected and for all practical purposes the printer appears to be happily installed on my machine. Yet, it does not respond when jobs are sent to it. I tried watching the printer manager after sending a job; What I see is this: The job alternates between a state of being "queued" and being "processed", and every time it alternates, the page number rises by one. So, even when I sent a 2 line text document, it sits there and says "queued...processing...queued, processing...queued...processing...(ad infinitum) as the page numbers rise steadily onward...I stopped it when a two line text document had purportedly become 23 pages long as the damned thing tried unsuccessfully to decide whether to queue or process. I don't think this has anything to do with the hardware, either. Perhaps this is what was happening to the lexmark, for all I know. The driver is a foomatic+gimp-print, and I am using cups (1.1.7-13.3). At one point, the printer configuration tool said that it could not open the USB device, supposedl;y because it did not exist, yet the printer was detected properly on that USB port. Other USB devices are functioning fine (like this keyboard). This printer can also use parallel, but that proved no more productive, in fact, the printer was identified as a "stylus 820" (without "photo") when I attempted to install it on the parallel port, and did not respond then, either. Does anyone have an idea what the probelm is? Do you require further information? Any assistance would be deeply appeciated. School starts next week and printing is essential to my teacher duties. Thanks, tony b http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GED$/L/P/FA d? s: a C++ L++ W++ N++ K- w--- M+ PS++ PE-- Y+ PGP- t+ tv-- b++(b++++) D? G e++++ h++ r--- y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ _____________________________________________________________ School-Library.net Freedom to Learn! -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
