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Hi Mark, |
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Can you please give more details? |
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- Printer model |
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- Driver cups is using |
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Thanks, |
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Norberto |
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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> My wife picked up a new printer on the cheap. It's an Epson and |
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> pretty much identical to one on my son's old Fedora system so I am |
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> sure it should work. However so far I cannot get CUPS to make it |
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> print. |
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> 1) I've plugged it in to a USB port. It's visible using usbview. |
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> 2) I tried configuring it as a new printer within CUPS. I called it a |
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> USB printer and chose USB Printer #1. |
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> 3) I picked out the Epson Stylus stuff and CUPS said everythign was cool. |
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> 4) When I look at printer status I see that the printer is there. It |
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> says the printer is ready to print and its address usb:/dev/usb/lp0. |
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> However when I unplug the USB cable and refresh the browser it doesn't |
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> show as being not ready. |
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> I tried printing a test page. The print job happens and the system |
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> says it's completed but no test page comes out. |
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> What obvious thing am I missing about this? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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Norberto Bensa |
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4544-9692 |
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Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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