USB Printer

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Try to put in the printer URI in the print command line in printer share in smb.conf. instead of -Pepson or what your printer is called.



----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Dekkers <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:23:02 +0800
To: edwin at ironstone.com.au,General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: USB Printer

> Edwin Humphries wrote:
> 
> > On 31 Mar 2004 at 8:58, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Edwin Humphries wrote:
> >>
> >>>We're trying to share an Epson USB printer via Samba on our new Fedora server.
> > 
> > 
> >>>The share is set up OK, and can be seen and opened from Windows clients.
> >>>However, although the Fedora box can print to the Epson, the Windows boxes can.
> > 
> > 
> >>I'm assuming this is a typo, I'm sure you wouldn't be posting if they 
> >>can both print OK.
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, sorry: should read "can't".
> > 
> > 
> >>>All other Samba shares, including a laser printer connected to the parallel
> >>>port, work fine.
> >>>
> >>>Does anyone have a clue how to fix this?
> > 
> > 
> >>Please tell us EXACTLY what's happening. Just saying something doesn't 
> >>work really isn't good enough to guess what is going wrong.
> > 
> > 
> > I've checked the port settings on the Epson driver: if I install it from the Epson 
> > CD, it's set to LPT1: and can't be changed, so that doesn't work. If I install it 
> > from the Add Printer "wizard", the job (usually print test from windows) shows up on 
> > the Epson Status Monitor showing a connection error.
> 
> OK, forget the status monitor for starters - this is simply not going to 
> work over the samba share, as it relies on the Windows driver. Linux 
> doesn't have the Windows driver, hence the status monitor is not going 
> to work.
> 
> I cannot remember EXACTLY what I did to get my C82 working like your 
> configuration, but I do remember I had to change something inside the 
> cups configuration files to set the cups system to RAW printing mode.
> 
> I found the answer on the net at that stage, and since the printer is no 
> longer on my server, I cannot give you the exact answer. The reason I 
> took it off the server and shared it with a real windows PC instead is 
> because the C82 has 4 ink cartridges, yet only 1 ink out indicator. The 
> status monitor is the ONLY way to see which ink is out. Really stupid on 
> Epson's part, they obviously assumed everybody in the world runs 
> Windows, but nothing I can do about it. The earlier printers with 1 
> black, 1 tri-colour DID have 2 ink indicator LEDs, this has only become 
> a problem in the recent models.
> 
> Just having a look in /etc/cups right now, I've found it again. There's 
> two files: mime.types and mime.conv
> 
> BOTH have a section in there called RAW printing support. I simply 
> un-commented those lines (as instructed in the comments), and hey 
> presto, I could print to the Epson.
> 
> However - You haven't given us the model of the Epson, but if you have 
> less ink indicator LEDs than actual inks inside the printer, you really 
> do need the monitor unless someone's written a clever program for Linux 
> to monitor this for you.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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