CUPS and Epson Stylus C86

[david walcroft]

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