CUPS and Epson Stylus C86

[Bill Spears]

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 at easystreet.com>