Epson Stylus Color (not) C80 Printer IPP Setup

[Brenda Radford]

Have tried several times to post reply to Rick Stevens using Microsoft 
Outlook 2002, and post isn't making its way to the list.   I don't know  
what I am doing wrong.  This attempt is from the Hotmail web interface. If 
this posts to  a new thread instead of as a reply to the original thread, 
sorry.
Couldn't make it happen.

Rick,

This is my first mailing list post, so if you get two of these, sorry. I 
have done newsgroups before, just not mailing lists. And oh, do I love 
Microsoft Outlook (not).  If this doesn't get to the list, I give up.

Looks like I am not going to be able to avoid reading the CUPS 
documentation, so I printed them from my Windows box and hope to get to them 
soon.  They look a little less intimidating than they did at first glance.

Tried printing using the Gimp (one of the .png images I had copied earlier 
from /usr/share/pixmaps) and I got color! Thanks for that. While I was in 
there, I looked at those settings you told me about, and Color was selected, 
obviously. Haven't tried printing any photos or any other image format.

The color is not happening from the CUPS "Print Test Page" button in the 
CUPS web interface, for starters. OUCH! The color is not happening in web 
pages printed using the Mozilla browser, for seconds. I looked at the 
Preferences in Mozilla and couldn't find any options for changing printing 
except File menu, Page Setup, Select or Unselect printing the background.

Color not expected, and not happening in printing from Terminal window (pipe 
commands to lpr, always text). Learned about eog last week for viewing 
images from Bash. Wouldn't have occurred to me otherwise to even think about 
doing anything with image files in Terminal window other than listing them 
with ls or dir.

Thanks for the calibration info. The page I printed from Step 6 needs to 
move a little to the right and down on the paper. I need to find that better 
ruler I have before I fiddle with those settings. I printed both those files 
out so I can read them before I run the alignment application again. I will 
also read some pages I printed from _http://www.linuxprinting.org_ 
<http://www.linuxprinting.org/>.

I am still wondering about that redhat-config-printer application, since I 
was able to print color using the Gimp and gimp-print is the recommended 
driver in r-c-p. While running the alignment program, the print queue 
appeared as "EpsonC80". The documentation shows Path (default, I think) in
r-c-p as /printers/queue1, and the Server as servername.example.com. My 
system is set up as localhost.localdomain, the default configuration. I 
checked it by looking at /etc/hosts and also by typing "hostname" in the 
Bash shell. I tried putting _http://192.168.1.1:631/EPSON_IPP_Printer_ in 
the Server box but the python script (whatever?) that runs r-c-p adds an 
"ipp" to the Server and doesn't print. When I can't get r-c-p to work, I go 
back to the CUPS web interface and change it back to what I know works. 
That's where I saw that the "ipp" had been added to the Server name. The 
modifications r-c-p has made show up in the CUPS web interface boxes.

Thanks for your help.

Brenda



-----Original Message-----

From: Rick Stevens [_mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com_]

Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 1:40 PM

To: brkittycat at hotmail.com; Getting started with Red Hat Linux

Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color (not) C80 Printer IPP Setup

(my original post clipped out here for brevity's sake)

It looks like you got the right driver. From which application is the color 
not happening? If it's from the Gimp, then click on the "Image/Output 
Settings" tab and make sure "Color" is selected. Ditto if you're printing 
from another application.

(the rest of my original post clipped out here, too)

That's typically a calibration thing. Go to this URL:

_http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html_

and look at step 6 carefully. Make sure you perform those steps to make sure 
the foomatic drivers use the right clipping and offset regions.

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