Rafael Fernandez wrote:
Hello,
I have an old printer here at home, an Epson Stylus Color 600 which is
supported by cups and work "perfectly" with gimp-print acording to
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3 and
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_Color_600.
I am running Linux kernel 2.6.1 and I can't get anything to print.
Any help? Can't find anything useful on Google.
I'm running epson 740's (similar parallel interface + gimp-print + cups) on
the rawhide kernel 2.6.1 without problem. I'd think the only thing that
the kernel would affect would be the parallel interface.
If cups was running, the /sbin/lsmod output should include:
parport_pc 42924 1
lp 13060 0
parport 47336 2 parport_pc,lp
If the modules aren't there, you won't be able to communicate via the parallel
port. You could try loading them manually with "modprobe lp", then restart
cups:
service cups restart
For 2.6.1, I don't have *any* printer or parallel port info in
/etc/modprobe.conf
Can you communicate with the printer? Try stopping cups and querying the
ink status:
service cups stop
escputil -r /dev/lp0 -i
(might take a while ..)
service cups start
The 600 may be old, but it's still running strong here!
Hope this helps,
-Bob Arendt
