On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 20:41 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Epson C64 printer running with FC6 up to date. I periodically need to > clean the print heads. Until now the method has been to reboot into XP and use > the Epson driver there. This works fine but is tedious. I recently updated the > Epson CUPS driver, hoping for this functionality, but it is apparently not > there. I then ran kcontrol, went into peripherals, printers and Epson printer > tools. There I found a page that seems to offer exactly the options needed to > nozzle print, align and clean the heads, in a vertical sequence of 6 buttons. > But clicking on any button gives the message, :unsupported connection type: hal." > Yeah, the default setup is to use HAL for the printer detection and driver assignment, but I've yet to get that to work properly. I always go back through the graphical printer configuration tool (system-config-printer) or the web interface (https://127.0.0.1:631 if CUPS is running) and change it to use the USB interface directly (e.g. "usb://EPSON/Stylus+C64 or something similar). That should fix it in kcontrol too, I believe. Alternatively, escputil (from the gutenprint package on F7/Devel or gimp-print on FC6) can be of assistance to you. Check its documentation for the available options and more details on its usage; but something like the following should get you started: # escputil --raw-device /dev/usb/lp0 --clean-head # escputil --raw-device /dev/usb/lp0 --nozzle-check There is a graphical front-end for this call stylus-toolbox [1] which has been on the packaging wishlist for some time now, but it is not packaged as part of Fedora yet. (Any takers? ^_^) [1] http://stylus-toolbox.sourceforge.net/ Hope that helps. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF & EFF Member GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ About: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PeterGordon
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