Epson usb printer

cbrese · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 7:19 pm Post subject: Epson usb printer

I'm having trouble getting my Epson 785EPX usb printer to work.

So far I have installed cups and gimp-print-cup and downgraded cups to 1.1.14-r4.

I think I have usbdevfs installed because I can see the printer with usbview. I did notice the the printer shows up in red in usbview.

Before I downgraded all the print jobs were getting cancelled but now when I look at the printer in cups admin it says "Unable to open USB port device file /dev/usb/lp0"

I can't think of anything else to try. Does anyone have any ideas?

cbrese · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject:

I kust noticed that a device file name /dev/lp0 exstis so I tried using that port instead, but now the cups admin is saying the port is busy.

cbrese · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 9:46 pm Post subject:

I got it to work.

I forgot to printer in /etc/modules.autoload.

Once I did a modprobe printer it worked.

Now to get my compact flash card reader to work.

cbrese · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 11:08 pm Post subject:

Damn, I had it working then I rebooted to see if everything would still work and it dosen't. :evil:

I'm back to having all my print jobs cancelled by cups.

Any ideas? I'm realy sick of wasting time with this.

cbrese · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 12:18 am Post subject:

I hope this is the end of this thread.

I got my printers working agian.

The fix was remerging ghostscript.

My theory is that when I was trying to get printing working the first time I emerged gimp-print and then I did a modprobe printer. It was the modprobe that fixed it, but somehow I think emerging gimp-print broke ghostscript.