On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:49 -0500, David Curry wrote: > david walcroft wrote: > > > Bill Spears wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to get an Epson Stylus C86 to work with Fedora 3. > >> I have an HP 1200 working off the parallel port and I want the Epson to > >> work off the USB. > >> > >> I've got gimp-print and foomatic installed. > >> > >> When I use the browser utility of CUPS to install the printer and print > >> a test page, I just get a few characters printed on several pages. > >> > >> I'm not sure what to try next. > >> > >> Help? > > > > > > Take a look at the Linuxprinting site. > > > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C86 > > > > david > > > I run FC2 so I'm not familiar with the workings of FC3. There should be > a Gnome or Kde print configuration utility available in FC3, though, > that might produce must better result than relying on the CUPS web > administration tool. On installing FC2 and trying to set up my own > printing, I found that the CUPS adminstration interface was not linked > to (did not interface with) the foomatice database installed on my > system. The Gnome print configuration tool had no difficulty finding > and installing the driver(s) I needed. > Thanks. Using the gnome printer setup helped. I was able to print a test page from there and from CUPS. When I went to use gimp to print a jpg file, I resetup a printer there. However, it just hangs. (CUPS shows a job as pending) -- Bill Spears <bspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
